Not Eleven Languages : : Translanguaging and South African Multilingualism in Concert / / Leketi Makalela.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2023 Part 1
• VerfasserIn: Makalela, Leketi ,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Contributions to the Sociology of Language [CSL] , 107
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (XVI, 147 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Preface --; Acknowledgement --; Contents --; Chapter 1 African multilingualism re-defined: ‘I am because you are’ --; Chapter 2 History of language war and its sociolinguistic output --; Chapter 3 Language inventions and the role of missionary linguists --; Chapter 4 Myths and controversies on policy implementation --; Chapter 5 Mutual inter-comprehensibility: A case against the number of African languages --; Chapter 6 Conversation analyses and high order thinking: A case for harmonization --; Chapter 7 Beyond boundaries to full linguistic repertoires --; Chapter 8 Sankofa, decolonization and shifting multilingual lenses --; Chapter 9 Ubuntu translanguaging: Implications for language policy and education --; Chapter 10 Not eleven languages: Harmonizing and translanguaging in concert --; References --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781614515067; 9783111175782; 9783111205793; 9783110993899; 9783110994810; 9783110993707; 9783110993684; 9783110791297
• ISSN: 1861-0676
• DOI: 10.1515/9781614515067
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Leketi Makalela.

Dynamic language practices of African multilingual speakers have not been cogently described in a book-length manuscript. This book challenges assumptions that led to South Africa's 11 official languages and makes a case for mutual inter-comprehensibility. Students, teachers, and scholars in sociolinguistics, multilingualism, translanguaging, and teacher education will find this book thought-provoking.