Local Languaging Literacy And Multilingualism In A West African Society

Author : Kasper Juffermans
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781783094202

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Local Languaging, Literacy and Multilingualism in a West African Society by Kasper Juffermans Pdf

This book aims to enhance and challenge our understanding of language and literacy as social practice against the background of heightened globalisation. Juffermans presents an ethnographic study of the linguistic landscape of The Gambia, arguing that language should be conceptualised as a verb (languaging) rather than a countable noun (a language, languages). He goes on to argue that sociolinguistics should not be defined as the study of ‘who speaks what language to whom, and when and to what end’ (as Fishman defined it), but as the study of who uses which linguistic features under particular circumstances in a particular place and time. The book is therefore in part an exercise to unpluralise language, which Juffermans argues is necessary for a more realistic understanding of what language is, what it does, and what people do with it. The book will be of interest to sociolinguistics researchers, especially those focusing on Africa and the global South.

Author : Ruth W. Ndung’u,Martin C. Njoroge,Daniel O. Orwenjo
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2014-10-16
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781443869607

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Multilingualism and Education in Africa by Ruth W. Ndung’u,Martin C. Njoroge,Daniel O. Orwenjo Pdf

This book is a must-read for every language teaching professional and researcher working in a multilingual context. Multilingualism and Education in Africa: The State of the State of the Art is an up-to-date exploration and wide-ranging review of the symbiotic relationship between multilingualism and education in Africa. The African continent is rich in languages. Most of her inhabitants are multilingual and many of the nations have embraced multilingual education. This book examines multilingualism in education from three broad perspectives: multilingualism and language in education policy in Africa; multilingualism as an educational resource in Africa; and attitudes and challenges of multilingualism and education in Africa. The book’s nineteen chapters discuss these three perspectives from East, West, Central and South Africa. All the contributors are leading authorities in multilingualism and education. The chapters combine a wide range of viewpoints based on theoretical, empirical and personal experiences. The reader is left with a deeper understanding of the unique features of multilingualism and education in Africa that have seldom been addressed by those who experience them first-hand. The book demonstrates successful practices in multilingualism and education; showing how African nations have determined what works for them without ignoring challenges such as policies on paper, attitudes towards African languages and limited resources. The benefits of multilingual education override the challenges. The book’s extensive coverage makes it an important resource for scholars and policy makers in the field of multilingualism and education. Overall, this book represents an important contribution to an important subject in education globally. The editors have provided an introductory overview to the book and commentaries on the three sections.

Author : Neville Alexander,Brigitta Busch,European Centre for Modern Languages
Publisher : Council of Europe
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789287161413

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Literacy and Linguistic Diversity in a Global Perspective by Neville Alexander,Brigitta Busch,European Centre for Modern Languages Pdf

This publication reflects the outcomes of a project which brought together experts and practitioners in the field of linguistic diversity and literacy from European and African countries with a view to opening a dialogue, to taking a comparative perspective and defining possible areas of mutually enriching co-operation and exchange. The question of promoting low-status and non-dominant languages in education is the core concern of contributions in this volume which also encompasses topics such as language awareness, stimulating and encouraging a reading culture in low-status languages and developing criteria for teaching and learning materials that respect linguistic diversity and promote multilingualism. Examples of good practice in valuing African languages include an awareness raising campaign in Cameroon, NGO activities promoting literary production in Senegalese languages, the Stories Across Africa Project (StAAf) as well as initiatives of North-South cooperation in the fields of teacher training and materials development. This publication was conceptualised as a contribution to the African Union's Year of African Languages 2006/07.

Author : Elizabeth C. Zsiga,One Tlale Boyer,Ruth Kramer
Publisher : Georgetown University Press
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2015-03-03
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781626161535

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Languages in Africa by Elizabeth C. Zsiga,One Tlale Boyer,Ruth Kramer Pdf

People in many African communities live within a series of concentric circles when it comes to language. In a small group, a speaker uses an often unwritten and endangered mother tongue that is rarely used in school. A national indigenous language—written, widespread, sometimes used in school—surrounds it. An international language like French or English, a vestige of colonialism, carries prestige, is used in higher education, and promises mobility—and yet it will not be well known by its users. The essays in Languages in Africa explore the layers of African multilingualism as they affect language policy and education. Through case studies ranging across the continent, the contributors consider multilingualism in the classroom as well as in domains ranging from music and film to politics and figurative language. The contributors report on the widespread devaluing and even death of indigenous languages. They also investigate how poor teacher training leads to language-related failures in education. At the same time, they demonstrate that education in a mother tongue can work, linguists can use their expertise to provoke changes in language policies, and linguistic creativity thrives in these multilingual communities.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1920294015

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New Directions in Language & Literacy Education for Multilingual Classrooms in Africa by Anonim Pdf

Author : Ayọ Bamgboṣe
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 3825847756

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Language and Exclusion by Ayọ Bamgboṣe Pdf

Language is a critical factor in nation-building, and in a continent such as Africa, where language groups do not necessarily correspond with national boundaries, it is potentially contentious as well. Ayo Bamgbose's new book focuses on the problem of language exclusion, whereby certain languages -- and groups -- are omitted from language policies, particularly in countries in Sub-Saharan Africa. Originally based on a series of lectures given in South Africa, the individual chapters largely preserve the original style of presentation. Consequently, the book is readable, and a valuable introduction to some of the more important issues in African sociolinguistics. The book makes special reference to the language situation in post-apartheid South Africa. The appendices provide access to some of the most important documents on language policies such as the Organization of African Unity's Language Plan of Action For Africa (1986), the language provisions in the Constitution of the Federal Republic of South Africa (1996), and the Barcelona Universal Declaration on Linguistics Rights.

Author : Finex Ndhlovu,Leketi Makalela
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2021-07-16
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781788923378

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Decolonising Multilingualism in Africa by Finex Ndhlovu,Leketi Makalela Pdf

This book interrogates and problematises African multilingualism as it is currently understood in language education and research. It challenges the enduring colonial matrices of power hidden within mainstream conceptions of multilingualism that have been propagated in the Global North and then exported to the Global South under the aegis of colonial modernity and pretensions of universal epistemic relevance. The book contributes new points of method, theory and interpretation that will advance scholarly conversations on decolonial epistemology by introducing the notion of coloniality of language – a summary term that describes the ways in which notions of language and multilingualism in post-colonial societies remain colonial. The authors begin the process of mapping out what a socially realistic notion of multilingualism would look like if we took into account the voices of marginalised and ignored African communities of practice – both on the African continent and in the diasporas.

Author : Gerda Mansour
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1853591742

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Multilingualism and Nation Building by Gerda Mansour Pdf

This book is interdisciplinary, drawing on the sociology and politics of language, African linguistics, African history and social history in general. It focuses on the various issues related to multilingualism in West Africa, but is also relevant to multilingual situations in Third World countries generally. Although the book is aimed at the educated general reader, it should also be of interest to language specialists and students of Third World politics.

Author : Wilfred Whiteley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2017-09-18
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781351597999

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Language Use and Social Change by Wilfred Whiteley Pdf

The social implications of multilingualism is a field of study on whcih systematic research began only in the second half of the 20th century in Africa. This book, originally published in 1971, contains papers which concentrate on East Africa but it also discusses theoretical problems and methods arising from socio-linguistic studies outside the African field. These include studies on national languages and languages of wider communication in developing nations; the communication role of languages in multilingual societies; and social and cognitive aspects of bilingualism.

Author : Centre for Advanced Studies of African Society
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : African languages
ISBN : 192044730X

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Multilingualism by Centre for Advanced Studies of African Society Pdf

"Some of us have argued that without education through the mother tongue or another equally familiar African language at all levels of education there is no future for African development.The experience of post-colonial Asia and Western Europe point irrefutably to the inherent value in mother tongue education or at least education in popular, widely spoken, local languages. We have frequently argued that the prosperity and economic prowess of modern Asia is, in no small measure, attributable to the use of languages confidently understood, spoken and written by the overwhelming masses of the people"--[P.4] of cover.

Author : Charlyn Dyers
Publisher : AFRICAN SUN MeDIA
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2018-11-28
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781928357988

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The Semiotics of New Spaces by Charlyn Dyers Pdf

In South Africa, the township or sub-economic state housing development has achieved a very significant position as a site for sociolinguistic research. The Semiotics of New Spaces ? Languaging and Literacy Practices in one South African Township looks at the ways in which people are responding, through their semiotic practices, to the intense socio-historical changes taking place in post?apartheid South Africa. The study is set against the backdrop of Wesbank ? one of the first racially mixed housing developments in the Western Cape. The result is a range of related topics, such as how cross-cultural and crosslinguistic families influence the language practices of their younger members; the impact of translingual friendships on language practices and attitudes; the ways in which older people use their existing literacies to negotiate the multilingual realities of the township and aspects such as identity, voice and agency as markers of a developing participatory citizenship.

Author : Rainer Vossen,Gerrit J. Dimmendaal
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 1104 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2020-03-19
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780191007385

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The Oxford Handbook of African Languages by Rainer Vossen,Gerrit J. Dimmendaal Pdf

This book provides a comprehensive overview of current research in African languages, drawing on insights from anthropological linguistics, typology, historical and comparative linguistics, and sociolinguistics. Africa is believed to host at least one third of the world's languages, usually classified into four phyla - Niger-Congo, Afro-Asiatic, Nilo-Saharan, and Khoisan - which are then subdivided into further families and subgroupings. This volume explores all aspects of research in the field, beginning with chapters that cover the major domains of grammar and comparative approaches. Later parts provide overviews of the phyla and subfamilies, alongside grammatical sketches of eighteen representative African languages of diverse genetic affiliation. The volume additionally explores multiple other topics relating to African languages and linguistics, with a particular focus on extralinguistic issues: language, cognition, and culture, including colour terminology and conversation analysis; language and society, including language contact and endangerment; language and history; and language and orature. This wide-ranging handbook will be a valuable reference for scholars and students in all areas of African linguistics and anthropology, and for anyone interested in descriptive, documentary, typological, and comparative linguistics.

Author : K. K. Prah
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : African languages
ISBN : UOM:39015053775790

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African Languages for the Mass Education of Africans by K. K. Prah Pdf

Author : Sjaak Kroon,Jos Swanenberg
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2018-10-03
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781351244336

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Language and Culture on the Margins by Sjaak Kroon,Jos Swanenberg Pdf

This collection of thirteen essays examines sociolinguistic phenomena in a wide variety of marginal environments, providing both an overview of globalizaiton on the margins and a foundation for an expanded understanding of the processes of linguistic and cultural changes at work in these settings. Taking an expansive conceptual view of margins, the volume is organized in three parts, looking at examples of marginal spaces in the nation-state, in online environments, and in the peripheries of urban locations, globally to call attention to new and changing discursive genres, patterns, practices, and identities emerging in these spaces as a result of contemporary mobilities, the evolving global economy, and socio-political changes. With previous research previously confined to the study of globalization in urban areas, this volume opens the door for further research on the complex sociolinguistic processes resulting from globalization on the margins, making this an ideal resource for students and scholars in sociolinguistics, globalization and heritage studies, new media, anthropology, and cultural studies.

Author : Li Wei
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2015-10-16
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781317638988

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Multilingualism in the Chinese Diaspora Worldwide by Li Wei Pdf

In this volume, Li Wei brings together contributions from well-known and emerging scholars in socio- and anthropological linguistics working on different linguistic and communicative aspects of the Chinese diaspora. The project examines the Chinese diasporic experience from a global, comparative perspective, with a particular focus on transnational links, and local social and multilingual realities. Contributors address the emergence of new forms of Chinese in multilingual contexts, family language policy and practice, language socialization and identity development, multilingual creativity, linguistic attitudes and ideologies, and heritage language maintenance, loss, learning and re-learning. The studies are based on empirical observations and investigations in Chinese communities across the globe, including well-researched (from a sociolinguistic perspective) areas such as North America, Western Europe and Australia, as well as under-explored and under-represented areas such as Africa, Latin America, Central Asia, and the Middle East; the volume also includes detailed ethnographic accounts representing regions with a high concentration of Chinese migration such as Southeast Asia. This volume not only will allow sociolinguists to investigate the link between linguistic phenomena in specific communities and wider socio-cultural processes, but also invites an open dialogue with researchers from other disciplines who are working on migration, diaspora and identity, and those studying other language-based diasporic communities such as the Russian diaspora, the Spanish diaspora, the Portuguese diaspora, and the Arabic diaspora.