Rethinking Language Use in Digital Africa : Technology and Communication in Sub-Saharan Africa

Rethinking Language Use in Digital Africa Technology and Communication in Sub-Saharan Africa

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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Edzordzi Agbozo, G., contributor (contributor), Makalela, Leketi, contributor (editor), 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
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Blue Ridge Summit, PA : Multilingual Matters [2021]
Edición:1st ed
Colección:New Perspectives on Language and Education
Materias:
Digital communications > Africa, Sub-Saharan.
Digital media > Social aspects > Africa, Sub-Saharan.
Language policy > Africa, Sub-Saharan.
Multilingualism > Africa, Sub-Saharan.
Translanguaging (Linguistics)
Translanguaging (Linguistics).
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Communication Studies.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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

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