Rethinking Language Use in Digital Africa : Technology and Communication in Sub-Saharan Africa / ed. by Goodith White, Leketi Makalela.

Format:

• Book

Contributor:

• Edzordzi Agbozo, G., Contributor.
• Makalela, Leketi, Contributor.
• Makalela, Leketi, Editor.
• Niyibizi, Epimaque, Contributor.
• Niyomugabo, Cyprien, Contributor.
• Norton, Bonny, Contributor.
• Ofemile, Abdulmalik Yusuf, Contributor.
• Ogbay, Sarah, Contributor.
• Perumal, Juliet, Contributor.
• Rescue, Elvis, Contributor.
• Rowan, Kirsty, Contributor.
• Sacks, Susanna, Contributor.
• White, Goodith, Contributor.
• White, Goodith, Editor.

Series:

• New Perspectives on Language and Education
• New Perspectives on Language and Education ; 92

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Digital communications--Africa, Sub-Saharan.
• Digital media--Social aspects--Africa, Sub-Saharan.
• Language policy--Africa, Sub-Saharan.
• Multilingualism--Africa, Sub-Saharan.
• Translanguaging (Linguistics).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (224 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Blue Ridge Summit, PA : Multilingual Matters, [2021]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

This book challenges the view that digital communication in Africa is relatively unsophisticated and questions the assumption that digital communication has a damaging effect on indigenous African languages. It offers a paradigm of language merging that provides a blueprint for the decolonization of African languages through digital platforms.

Contents:

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Contributors
• Introduction
• Part 1: Multilingual Practices
• 1 Multilingual Literacies and Technology in Africa: Towards Ubuntu Digital Translanguaging
• 2 Translanguaging in the Rwandan Social Media: New Meaning Making in a Changing Society
• Part 2: Linguistic and Cultural Maintenance
• 3 Creating Translated Interfaces: The Represen tations of African Langua ges and Cultures in Digital Media
• 4 Mdocumentation: Combining New Technologies and Language Documentation to Promote Multilingualism in Nubian Heritage Language Learners of the Diaspora
• Part 3: The Effects of Communication Outside Africa
• 5 A Network of Anger and Hope: An Investigation of Communication on a Feminist Activist Facebook Website, the Network of Eritrean Women (RENEW)
• 6 Identity, Language and Literacy in an African Digital Landscape
• 7 Networked Poetics: WhatsApp Poetry Groups and Malawian Aesthetic Networks
• Part 4: Language Change
• 8 Human–Agent Interaction: L1-mode Intelligent Software Agents Instructing Nigerian L2 Speakers of English During Assembly Tasks
• Conclusion
• Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Jul 2021)

ISBN:

• 9781800412323
• 1800412320
• 9781800412316
• 1800412312

OCLC:

1256238102