32.2211, Books: Rethinking Language Use in Digital Africa: Makalela, White (eds.)

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Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2021 22:30:24
From: Flo McClelland [flo at multilingual-matters.com]
Subject: Rethinking Language Use in Digital Africa: Makalela, White (eds.)

 


Title: Rethinking Language Use in Digital Africa 
Subtitle: Technology and Communication in Sub-Saharan Africa 
Series Title: New Perspectives on Language and Education  

Publication Year: 2021 
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
	   http://www.multilingual-matters.com/
	

Book URL: https://www.multilingual-matters.com/page/detail/?K=9781800412293 


Editor: Leketi Makalela
Editor: Goodith White

Hardback: ISBN:  9781800412309 Pages: 216 Price: U.S. $ 139.95
Hardback: ISBN:  9781800412309 Pages: 216 Price: U.K. £ 99.95
Paperback: ISBN:  9781800412293 Pages: 216 Price: U.S. $ 39.95
Paperback: ISBN:  9781800412293 Pages: 216 Price: U.K. £ 29.95


Abstract:

This book challenges the view that digital communication in Africa is limited
and relatively unsophisticated and questions the assumption that digital
communication has a damaging effect on indigenous African languages. The book
applies the principles of Digital African Multilingualism (DAM) in which there
are no rigid boundaries between languages. The book charts a way forward for
African languages where greater attention is paid to what speakers do with the
languages rather than what the languages look like, and offers several models
for language policy and planning based on horizontal and user-based
multilingualism. The chapters demonstrate how digital communication is being
used to form and sustain communication in many kinds of online groups,
including for political activism and creating poetry, and offer a paradigm of
language merging online that provides a practical blueprint for the
decolonization of African languages through digital platforms.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics


Written In: English  (eng)

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