ISBN:
9781800412293
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9781800412309
Sprache:
Englisch
Seiten:
xviii, 196 Seiten
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Illustrationen
Serie:
New perspectives on language and education 92
Serie:
New perspectives on language and education
Paralleltitel:
Erscheint auch als Rethinking language use in digital Africa
Paralleltitel:
Erscheint auch als Rethinking language use in digital Africa
DDC:
306.4460967
Schlagwort(e):
Multilingualism
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Translanguaging (Linguistics)
;
Digital communications
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Digital media Social aspects
;
Language policy
;
Aufsatzsammlung
Kurzfassung:
Introduction -- Multilingual Literacies and Technology in Africa: Towards Ubuntu Digital Translanguaging / Leketi Makalela -- Translanguaging in the Rwandan Social Media: New Meaning Making in a Changing Society / Epimaque Niyibizi, Cyprien Niyomugabo and Juliet Perumal -- Creating Translated Interfaces: The Representations of African Languages and Cultures in Digital Media / Elvis ResCue and G. Edzordzi Agbozo -- Mdocumentation: Combining New Technologies and Language Documentation to Promote Multilingualism in Nubian Heritage Language Learners of the Diaspora / Kirsty Rowan -- A Network of Anger and Hope: An Investigation of Communication on a Feminist Activist Facebook Website, The Network of Eritrean Women (RENEW) / Sarah Ogbay & Goodith White -- Identity, Language and Literacy in an African Digital Landscape / Bonny Norton -- Networked Poetics: WhatsApp Poetry Groups and Malawian Aesthetic Networks / Susanna Sacks -- Human-Agent Interaction: L1-mode Intelligent Software Agents Instructing Nigerian L2 Speakers of English During Assembly Tasks / Abdulmalik Yusuf Ofemile -- Conclusion.
Kurzfassung:
"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"--
Anmerkung:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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