Description: Further DetailsTitle: Rethinking Language Use in Digital AfricaCondition: NewEAN: 9781800412293ISBN: 9781800412293Publisher: Multilingual MattersFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 06/23/2021Item Height: 234mmItem Length: 156mmItem Width: 12mmItem Weight: 340gContributor: Leketi Makalela (Edited by), Goodith White (Edited by)Language: EnglishSubtitle: Technology and Communication in Sub-Saharan AfricaDescription: 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. This book is open access under a CC BY NC ND licence.Country/Region of Manufacture: GBGenre: Computing & InternetBook Series: New Perspectives on Language and EducationTopic: Language & ReferenceAuthor: Goodith WhiteRelease Year: 2021 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: Rethinking Language Use in Digital Africa
Title: Rethinking Language Use in Digital Africa
EAN: 9781800412293
ISBN: 9781800412293
Release Date: 06/23/2021
Release Year: 2021
Contributor: Goodith White (Edited by)
Subtitle: Technology and Communication in Sub-Saharan Africa
Country/Region of Manufacture: GB
Genre: Computing & Internet
Topic: Language & Reference
Number of Pages: 216 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Rethinking Language Use in Digital Africa : Technology and Communication in Sub-Saharan Africa
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
Subject: Communication Studies, Social Aspects / General, Linguistics / Sociolinguistics, Linguistics / General
Publication Year: 2021
Item Height: 0.5 in
Item Weight: 12 Oz
Type: Textbook
Author: Goodith White
Item Length: 9.2 in
Subject Area: Computers, Language Arts & Disciplines
Item Width: 6.2 in
Series: New Perspectives on Language and Education Ser.
Format: Trade Paperback
