Not Eleven Languages : : Translanguaging and South African Multilingualism in Concert / / 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 so...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2023 Part 1 |
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| 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 |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (XVI, 147 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- 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