LEADER 04761nam 22008055 450 001 996571848803316 005 20240123185920.0 010 $a1-80041-232-0 010 $a1-80041-231-2 024 7 $a10.21832/9781800412316 035 $a(CKB)4100000011954447 035 $a(DE-B1597)576605 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781800412316 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6639524 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL6639524 035 $a(OCoLC)1256238102 035 $a(OCoLC)1237651071 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000011954447 100 $a20210729h20212021 fg 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||#|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 00$aRethinking Language Use in Digital Africa $eTechnology and Communication in Sub-Saharan Africa /$fed. by Goodith White, Leketi Makalela 205 $a1st ed. 210 1$aBlue Ridge Summit, PA :$cMultilingual Matters,$d[2021] 210 4$d©2021 215 $a1 online resource (224 p.) 225 0 $aNew Perspectives on Language and Education ;$v92 311 $a1-80041-230-4 311 $a1-80041-229-0 327 $tFrontmatter --$tContents --$tContributors --$tIntroduction --$tPart 1: Multilingual Practices --$t1 Multilingual Literacies and Technology in Africa: Towards Ubuntu Digital Translanguaging --$t2 Translanguaging in the Rwandan Social Media: New Meaning Making in a Changing Society --$tPart 2: Linguistic and Cultural Maintenance --$t3 Creating Translated Interfaces: The Represen tations of African Langua ges and Cultures in Digital Media --$t4 Mdocumentation: Combining New Technologies and Language Documentation to Promote Multilingualism in Nubian Heritage Language Learners of the Diaspora --$tPart 3: The Effects of Communication Outside Africa --$t5 A Network of Anger and Hope: An Investigation of Communication on a Feminist Activist Facebook Website, the Network of Eritrean Women (RENEW) --$t6 Identity, Language and Literacy in an African Digital Landscape --$t7 Networked Poetics: WhatsApp Poetry Groups and Malawian Aesthetic Networks --$tPart 4: Language Change --$t8 Human?Agent Interaction: L1-mode Intelligent Software Agents Instructing Nigerian L2 Speakers of English During Assembly Tasks --$tConclusion --$tIndex 330 $aThis book challenges the view that digital communication in Africa is relatively unsophisticated and questions the assumption that digital communication has a damaging effect on indigenous African languages. It offers a paradigm of language merging that provides a blueprint for the decolonization of African languages through digital platforms. 410 0$aNew Perspectives on Language and Education 606 $aDigital communications$zAfrica, Sub-Saharan 606 $aDigital media$xSocial aspects$zAfrica, Sub-Saharan 606 $aLanguage policy$zAfrica, Sub-Saharan 606 $aMultilingualism$zAfrica, Sub-Saharan 606 $aTranslanguaging (Linguistics) 606 $aTranslanguaging (Linguistics) 606 $aLANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Communication Studies$2bisacsh 615 0$aDigital communications 615 0$aDigital media$xSocial aspects 615 0$aLanguage policy 615 0$aMultilingualism 615 0$aTranslanguaging (Linguistics) 615 0$aTranslanguaging (Linguistics). 615 7$aLANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Communication Studies. 676 $a306.4460967 702 $aEdzordzi Agbozo$b G.$4ctb$4https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb 702 $aMakalela$b Leketi$4ctb$4https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb 702 $aMakalela$b Leketi$4edt$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt 702 $aNiyibizi$b Epimaque$4ctb$4https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb 702 $aNiyomugabo$b Cyprien$4ctb$4https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb 702 $aNorton$b Bonny$4ctb$4https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb 702 $aOfemile$b Abdulmalik Yusuf$4ctb$4https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb 702 $aOgbay$b Sarah$4ctb$4https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb 702 $aPerumal$b Juliet$4ctb$4https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb 702 $aRescue$b Elvis$4ctb$4https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb 702 $aRowan$b Kirsty$4ctb$4https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb 702 $aSacks$b Susanna$4ctb$4https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb 702 $aWhite$b Goodith$4ctb$4https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb 702 $aWhite$b Goodith$4edt$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a996571848803316 996 $aRethinking Language Use in Digital Africa$93670565 997 $aUNISA