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Record Nr.

UNISA996571848803316

Titolo

Rethinking Language Use in Digital Africa : Technology and Communication in Sub-Saharan Africa / / ed. by Goodith White, Leketi Makalela

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Blue Ridge Summit, PA : , : Multilingual Matters, , [2021]

©2021

ISBN

1-80041-232-0

1-80041-231-2

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (224 p.)

Collana

New Perspectives on Language and Education ; ; 92

Disciplina

306.4460967

Soggetti

Digital communications - Africa, Sub-Saharan

Digital media - Social aspects - Africa, Sub-Saharan

Language policy - Africa, Sub-Saharan

Multilingualism - Africa, Sub-Saharan

Translanguaging (Linguistics)

LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Communication Studies

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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 African languages through digital platforms.