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Rethinking Language Use in Digital Africa

- Technology and Communication in Sub-Saharan Africa
Engelsk Hardback

Rethinking Language Use in Digital Africa

- Technology and Communication in Sub-Saharan Africa
Engelsk Hardback
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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.

This book is open access under a CC BY NC ND licence.

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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.

This book is open access under a CC BY NC ND licence.

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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 216
ISBN-13: 9781800412309
Indbinding: Hardback
Udgave:
ISBN-10: 1800412304
Kategori: Sociolingvistik
Udg. Dato: 23 jun 2021
Længde: 15mm
Bredde: 156mm
Højde: 234mm
Forlag: Multilingual Matters
Oplagsdato: 23 jun 2021
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Kategori Sociolingvistik


ISBN-13 9781800412309


Sprog Engelsk


Indbinding Hardback


Sider 216


Udgave


Længde 15mm


Bredde 156mm


Højde 234mm


Udg. Dato 23 jun 2021


Oplagsdato 23 jun 2021


Forlag Multilingual Matters

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