LEADER 03408nam 22006255 450 001 9910163888503321 005 20230807193814.0 010 $a1-78309-422-2 010 $a1-78309-421-4 024 7 $a10.21832/9781783094219 035 $a(CKB)3710000000495867 035 $a(EBL)4002855 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001562994 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)16215960 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001562994 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)12450934 035 $a(PQKB)10823741 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4002855 035 $a(DE-B1597)491464 035 $a(OCoLC)945754758 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781783094219 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000495867 100 $a20200707h20152015 fg 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aLocal Languaging, Literacy and Multilingualism in a West African Society /$fKasper Juffermans 210 1$aBlue Ridge Summit, PA : $cMultilingual Matters, $d[2015] 210 4$d©2015 215 $a1 online resource (187 p.) 225 0 $aCritical Language and Literacy Studies 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-78309-420-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tFigures and Tables -- $tSeries Editors? Preface -- $t1. How Many Languages Do You Speak? -- $t2. Gambia?s Local Languages -- $t3. Englishing and Imaging in the Linguistic Landscape -- $t4. Voices on English and Local Languages in Education -- $t5. Collaborative Literacy Repertoires -- $t6. Writing Mandinka in the Presence of English -- $t7. Local Languaging Regimes -- $tReferences -- $tIndex 330 $aThis book aims to enhance and challenge our understanding of language and literacy as social practice against the background of heightened globalisation. Juffermans presents an ethnographic study of the linguistic landscape of The Gambia, arguing that language should be conceptualised as a verb (languaging) rather than a countable noun (a language, languages). He goes on to argue that sociolinguistics should not be defined as the study of ?who speaks what language to whom, and when and to what end? (as Fishman defined it), but as the study of who uses which linguistic features under particular circumstances in a particular place and time. The book is therefore in part an exercise to unpluralise language, which Juffermans argues is necessary for a more realistic understanding of what language is, what it does, and what people do with it. The book will be of interest to sociolinguistics researchers, especially those focusing on Africa and the global South. 410 0$aCritical language and literacy studies ;$v20. 606 $aMultilingualism$zAfrica, West 606 $aLanguage and languages$zAfrica, West 606 $aLiteracy$zAfrica, West 606 $aSociolinguistics$zAfrica, West 615 0$aMultilingualism 615 0$aLanguage and languages 615 0$aLiteracy 615 0$aSociolinguistics 676 $a404/.2096651 700 $aJuffermans$b Kasper, $4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$01208696 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910163888503321 996 $aLocal Languaging, Literacy and Multilingualism in a West African Society$92788676 997 $aUNINA