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African Multilingualisms
Rural Linguistic and Cultural Diversity
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2020
Summary
Although multilingualism is the norm in the day-to-day lives of most sub-Saharan Africans, multilingualism in settings outside of cities has so far been under-explored. This gap is striking when considering that in many parts of Africa, individual multilingualism was widespread long before the colonial period and centuries before the continent experienced large-scale urbanization. The edited collection African Multilingualisms fills this gap by presenting results from recent and ongoing research based on fieldwork in rural African environments as well as environments characterized by contact between urban and rural communities of speakers. The contributors—mostly Africans themselves, including a number of emerging scholars—present findings that both complement and critique current scholarship on African multilingualism. In addition, new methods and tools are introduced for the study of multilingualism in rural settings, alongside illustrations of the kinds of results that they yield. African Multilingualisms reveals an impressive diversity in the features of local language ideologies, multilingual behaviors, and the relationship between language and identity.
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Bibliographic data
Copyright year
2020
ISBN-Print
978-1-4985-8895-9
ISBN-Online
978-1-4985-8896-6
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
272
Product type
Edited Book
Table of contents
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Contents No access
Foreword No access
Editors’ Preface No access
Introduction No access
Chapter 1 Multilingualism among the Mbororo of the North-West Region of Cameroon No access
Chapter 2 Nuances in Language Use in Multilingual Settings No access
Chapter 3 The So-Called Royal Register of Bafut within the Bafut Language Ecology No access
Chapter 4 Multilingualism as It Unfolds No access
Chapter 5 An Ecological Approach to Ethnic Identity and Language Dynamics in a Multilingual Area (Lower Casamance, Senegal) No access
Chapter 6 Multilingualism and the Paradox of Language Creation No access
Chapter 7 Multilingualism in Rural Africa No access
Chapter 8 Spaces and Interactions in Multilingual Repertoire Construction No access
Chapter 9 Analyzing Court Discourse in a Multilingual Setting No access
Chapter 10 Multilingualism and Language Ideologies in the Context of War No access
Chapter 11 What an Ethnographically Informed Questionnaire Can Contribute to the Understanding of Traditional Multilingualism Research No access
Chapter 12 Ways to Assess Multilingual Competence in Small, Unwritten Languages No access
Chapter 13 Essentialism and Indexicality in a Multilingual Rural Community No access
