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Leketi Makalela, Goodith White - Rethinking Language Use in Digital Africa, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2021

Del 92 i serien New Perspectives on Language and Education

Rethinking Language Use in Digital Africa

Technology and Communication in Sub-Saharan Africa

Av Leketi Makalela, Goodith White

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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.
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Leketi Makalela works in the Wits School of Education, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa. His research interests include translanguaging, African multilingualism and African languages and literacies.Goodith White is Senior Research Fellow, University of Nottingham, Malaysia. Her research interests include language use in Africa, language pedagogy and the use of technology in political and educational contexts.

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This is a timely and welcome addition to the burgeoning body of scholarship on language and communication in times of crises. It draws our attention to the importance of digital literacies and e-learning platforms in the communication of critical health information in marginalised multilingual communities. Measured in its aspirations yet far-reaching in policy implications, this volume deserves a space on the bookshelf of any serious scholar or student of applied and educational linguistics.

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