Decolonising multilingualism in Africa : recentering silenced voices from the global South / / Finex Ndhlovu and Leketi Makalela

• Autore: Ndhlovu Finex <1970->
• Pubblicazione: Bristol ; ; Blue Ridge Summit : , : Multilingual Matters, , [2021]; ©2021
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (208 pages)
• Disciplina: 306.446096
• Soggetto topico: Multilingualism - Africa; Language policy - Africa; Decolonization - Africa
• Persona (resp. second.): MakalelaLeketi
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- DOI https://doi.org/10.21832/NDHLOV3354 -- Contents -- Series Editors' Preface -- Preface -- 1 Myths We Live By: Multilingualism, Colonial Inventions -- 2 Unsettling Colonial Roots of Multilingualism -- 3 Unsettling Multilingualism in Language and Literacy Education -- 4 Decolonising Multilingualism in Higher Education -- 5 Decolonising Multilingualism in National Language Policies -- 6 African Vehicular Cross-Border Languages, Multilingualism Discourse -- 7 African Multilingualism, Immigrants, Diasporas -- 8 Multilingualism from Below: Languaging with a Seven Year Old -- 9 Recentring Silenced Lingualisms and Voices -- Index.
• Sommario/riassunto: This book interrogates and problematises African multilingualism as it is currently understood in language education and research. It challenges the enduring colonial matrices of power hidden within mainstream conceptions of multilingualism that have been propagated in the Global North and then exported to the Global South.
• Titolo autorizzato: Decolonising Multilingualism in Africa
• ISBN: 9781788923378; 1788923375; 9781788923361; 1788923367
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9911008920203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Critical language and literacy studies ; ; 26.