Globalization and language vitality : perspectives from Africa / / edited by Cecile B. Vigouroux, Salikoko S. Mufwene

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910809411303321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London ; ; New York, : Continuum, c2008
• ISBN: 1-282-87569-8; 9786612875694; 1-4411-7073-1
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (302 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): VigourouxCecile B; MufweneSalikoko S
• Disciplina: 496.09
• Soggetti: African languages; Language and culture - Africa; Languages in contact - Africa; Linguistic geography; Globalization - Social aspects - Africa; Africa Languages
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Contributors; Acknowledgements; 1. Colonization, Globalization and Language Vitality in Africa: An Introduction; 2. Trajectories of Language Endangerment in South Africa; 3. The Circumstances of Language Shift and Death in Southern Africa; 4. African Modernity, Transnationalism and Language Vitality: Portuguese in Multilingual Mozambique; 5. The Lives of Local and Regional Congolese Languages in Globalized Linguistic Markets; 6. Globalization and Sociolinguistic Stratification in North Africa: The Case of Morocco; 7. The Ascent of Wolof as an Urban Vernacular and National Lingua Franca in Senegal8. On the Futurology of Linguistic Development; 9. Globalization and the Sociolinguistics of the Internet: Between English and Kiswahili; 10. Writing Locality in Globalized Swahili: Semiotizing Space in a Tanzanian Novel; 11. From Africa to Africa: Globalization, Migration and Language Vitality; 12. Creating the Conditions for a Counter-Hegemonic Strategy: African Languages in the Twenty-First ; Century; Author Index; Subject Index
• Sommario/riassunto: This book discusses the effects of globalization on languages in Africa. In contrast to previous studies, the contributors examine whether or not globalization is affecting African languages in the same ways and at the same rate in different countries, and how local experiences of language change vary from place to place. Rather than seeing English as the 'killer language' par excellence, the contributors probe ways in which languages are being used side by side to complement each other in some contexts while competing against European colonial languages in others. The result is a diverse canv