Rethinking Language Use in Digital Africa: Technology and Communication in Sub-Saharan Africa

book: Rethinking Language Use in Digital Africa

Open Access Published by Multilingual Matters 2021

Rethinking Language Use in Digital Africa

Technology and Communication in Sub-Saharan Africa

Edited by: Leketi Makalela and Goodith White

Volume 92 in the series New Perspectives on Language and Education

https://doi.org/10.21832/9781800412316

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About this book

This 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.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Contributors Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Introduction Publicly Available Download PDF	xi
Part 1: Multilingual Practices
1 Multilingual Literacies and Technology in Africa: Towards Ubuntu Digital Translanguaging Leketi Makalela Open Access Download PDF	1
2 Translanguaging in the Rwandan Social Media: New Meaning Making in a Changing Society Epimaque Niyibizi, Cyprien Niyomugabo and Juliet Perumal Open Access Download PDF	19
Part 2: Linguistic and Cultural Maintenance
3 Creating Translated Interfaces: The Represen tations of African Langua ges and Cultures in Digital Media Elvis Rescue and G. Edzordzi Agbozo Open Access Download PDF	51
4 Mdocumentation: Combining New Technologies and Language Documentation to Promote Multilingualism in Nubian Heritage Language Learners of the Diaspora Kirsty Rowan Open Access Download PDF	73
Part 3: The Effects of Communication Outside Africa
5 A Network of Anger and Hope: An Investigation of Communication on a Feminist Activist Facebook Website, the Network of Eritrean Women (RENEW) Sarah Ogbay and Goodith White Open Access Download PDF	99
6 Identity, Language and Literacy in an African Digital Landscape Bonny Norton Open Access Download PDF	118
7 Networked Poetics: WhatsApp Poetry Groups and Malawian Aesthetic Networks Susanna Sacks Open Access Download PDF	137
Part 4: Language Change
8 Human–Agent Interaction: L1-mode Intelligent Software Agents Instructing Nigerian L2 Speakers of English During Assembly Tasks Abdulmalik Yusuf Ofemile Open Access Download PDF	157
Conclusion Open Access Download PDF	188
Index Open Access Download PDF	196

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 224
Keywords: Sociolinguistics; Ethical & social aspects of computing; Communication studies

eBook

Published: July 5, 2021
ISBN: 9781800412316