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



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Titolo: Globalization and language vitality : perspectives from Africa / / edited by Cecile B. Vigouroux, Salikoko S. Mufwene Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York, : Continuum, c2008
Edizione: 1st ed.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (302 p.)
Disciplina: 496.09
Soggetto topico: African languages
Language and culture - Africa
Languages in contact - Africa
Linguistic geography
Globalization - Social aspects - Africa
Soggetto geografico: Africa Languages
Altri autori: VigourouxCecile B  
MufweneSalikoko S  
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
Titolo autorizzato: Globalization and language vitality  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-282-87569-8
9786612875694
1-4411-7073-1
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910809411303321
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