Decolonising Multilingualism in Africa
Title | Decolonising Multilingualism in Africa PDF eBook |
Author | Finex Ndhlovu |
Publisher | Multilingual Matters |
Pages | 199 |
Release | 2021-07-16 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 1788923375 |
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 under the aegis of colonial modernity and pretensions of universal epistemic relevance. The book contributes new points of method, theory and interpretation that will advance scholarly conversations on decolonial epistemology by introducing the notion of coloniality of language – a summary term that describes the ways in which notions of language and multilingualism in post-colonial societies remain colonial. The authors begin the process of mapping out what a socially realistic notion of multilingualism would look like if we took into account the voices of marginalised and ignored African communities of practice – both on the African continent and in the diasporas.
Language and Decolonisation
Title | Language and Decolonisation PDF eBook |
Author | Finex Ndhlovu |
Publisher | Taylor & Francis |
Pages | 334 |
Release | 2024-07-23 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 1040039685 |
Language and Decolonisation is the first collection to bring together views from across scholarly communities that are committed to the agenda of decolonising knowledge in language study. Edited by leading figures in the field, the chapters offer new insights on how ‘decolonising’ can be adopted as a methodology for charting the next steps in solving practical language-related problems in educational and related social policy areas. Divided into two sections, the book covers the coloniality of language, the materiality of culture and colonial scripts, the decolonisation imperative, multilingualism discourse and decolonisation, and decolonising languages in public discourse. With 20 chapters authored by experts from across the globe, this pioneering collection is an essential reference and resource for advanced students, scholars, and researchers of language and culture, sociolinguistics, decolonial studies, racial studies, and related areas.
Decolonising Multilingualism
Title | Decolonising Multilingualism PDF eBook |
Author | Alison Phipps |
Publisher | Multilingual Matters |
Pages | 134 |
Release | 2019-06-25 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 178892407X |
What if my own multilingualism is simply that of one who is fluent in way too many colonial languages? If we are going to do this, if we are going to decolonise multilingualism, let’s do it as an attempt at a way of doing it. If we are going to do this, let’s cite with an eye to decolonising. If we are going to do this then let’s improvise and devise. This is how we might learn the arts of decolonising. If we are going to do this then we need different companions. If we are going to do this we will need artists and poetic activists. If we are going to do this, let’s do it in a way which is as local as it is global; which affirms the granulations of the way peoples name their worlds. Finally, if we are going to do this, let’s do it multilingually.
Languages in Africa
Title | Languages in Africa PDF eBook |
Author | Elizabeth C. Zsiga |
Publisher | Georgetown University Press |
Pages | 220 |
Release | 2015-03-03 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 1626161534 |
People in many African communities live within a series of concentric circles when it comes to language. In a small group, a speaker uses an often unwritten and endangered mother tongue that is rarely used in school. A national indigenous language—written, widespread, sometimes used in school—surrounds it. An international language like French or English, a vestige of colonialism, carries prestige, is used in higher education, and promises mobility—and yet it will not be well known by its users. The essays in Languages in Africa explore the layers of African multilingualism as they affect language policy and education. Through case studies ranging across the continent, the contributors consider multilingualism in the classroom as well as in domains ranging from music and film to politics and figurative language. The contributors report on the widespread devaluing and even death of indigenous languages. They also investigate how poor teacher training leads to language-related failures in education. At the same time, they demonstrate that education in a mother tongue can work, linguists can use their expertise to provoke changes in language policies, and linguistic creativity thrives in these multilingual communities.
Rethinking Language Use in Digital Africa
Title | Rethinking Language Use in Digital Africa PDF eBook |
Author | Leketi Makalela |
Publisher | Multilingual Matters |
Pages | 186 |
Release | 2021-06-23 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 1800412320 |
This book challenges the view that digital communication in Africa is limited and relatively unsophisticated and questions the assumption that digital communication has a damaging effect on indigenous African languages. The book applies the principles of Digital African Multilingualism (DAM) in which there are no rigid boundaries between languages. The book charts a way forward for African languages where greater attention is paid to what speakers do with the languages rather than what the languages look like, and offers several models for language policy and planning based on horizontal and user-based multilingualism. The chapters demonstrate how digital communication is being used to form and sustain communication in many kinds of online groups, including for political activism and creating poetry, and offer a paradigm of language merging online that provides a practical blueprint for the decolonization of African languages through digital platforms.
Language in Post Colonial Worlds. An Intellectual and Cultural Decolonization
Title | Language in Post Colonial Worlds. An Intellectual and Cultural Decolonization PDF eBook |
Author | Ahmed Musa |
Publisher | GRIN Verlag |
Pages | 12 |
Release | 2021-05-18 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 3346408078 |
Academic Paper from the year 2021 in the subject African Studies - Linguistics, grade: 95, , language: English, abstract: This paper deals with the questions of language, intellectual and cultural decolonization in post colonial worlds. The concern with cultural decolonization hails from different academic spheres, and as well as different geographical settings that either experienced European colonialism like in Africa, Asia or, from geographies with masses who were subjected to a forceful removal and enslavement and subsequently ferried from their indigenous homelands to Europe or America. To decolonize culture in this context primarily means, to liberate language, identity, and the intellectual constellation of the colonized communities from the colonial experience that some/many believe to have suppressed and subjugated their cultural identities.
The Transformative Power of Language
Title | The Transformative Power of Language PDF eBook |
Author | Russell H. Kaschula |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 395 |
Release | 2020-09-10 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 1108498825 |
A new study of the importance of language for sociocultural change in Africa, from postcolonial to globally competitive knowledge societies.