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Repertoires and choices in African languages / / Friederike Lüpke & Anne Storch



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Autore: Lüpke Friederike Visualizza persona
Titolo: Repertoires and choices in African languages / / Friederike Lüpke & Anne Storch Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Boston, : De Gruyter Mouton, 2013
Edizione: 1st ed.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (434 p.)
Disciplina: 496
Soggetto topico: Multilingualism - Africa
Linguistic change - Africa
Languages in contact - Africa
Language and culture - Africa
Language and languages - Variation - Africa
Soggetto geografico: Africa Languages
Soggetto non controllato: African Languages
Language Contact
Language Ideology
Linguistic Change
Multilingualism
Sociolinguistics
Altri autori: StorchAnne  
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [360]-390) and indexes.
Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- List of Tables, Maps and Figures -- List of figures with cited and archived web pages. Copyrights for repoduced photographs -- List of Languages -- Abbreviations -- Introduction / Lüpke, Friederike / Storch, Anne -- 1. Multilingualism on the ground / Lüpke, Friederike -- 2. Doing things with words / Storch, Anne -- 3. Language and ideology / Storch, Anne -- 4. Language and knowledge / Lüpke, Friederike / Storch, Anne -- 5. Language dynamics / Lüpke, Friederike / Storch, Anne -- 6. Not languages: repertoires as lived and living experience / Lüpke, Friederike / Storch, Anne -- References -- Language Index -- Subject Index -- Author Index
Sommario/riassunto: Most African languages are spoken by communities as one of several languages present on a daily basis. The persistence of multilingualism and the linguistic creativity manifest in the playful use of different languages are striking, especially against the backdrop of language death and expanding monolingualism elsewhere in the world. The effortless mastery of several languages is disturbing, however, for those who take essentialist perspectives that see it as a problem rather than a resource, and for the dominating, conflictual, sociolinguistic model of multilingualism. This volume investigates African minority languages in the context of changing patterns of multilingualism, and also assesses the status of African languages in terms of existing influential vitality scales. An important aspect of multilingual praxis is the speakers' agency in making choices, their repertoires of registers and the multiplicity of language ideology associated with different ways of speaking. The volume represents a new and original contribution to the ethnography of speaking of multilingual practices and the cultural ideas associated with them.
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ISBN: 1-61451-194-2
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910823754503321
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Serie: Language contact and bilingualism ; ; 5.