Local Languaging, Literacy and Multilingualism in a West African Society / / Kasper Juffermans.
This book aims to enhance and challenge our understanding of language and literacy as social practice against the background of heightened globalisation. Juffermans presents an ethnographic study of the linguistic landscape of The Gambia, arguing that language should be conceptualised as a verb (lan...
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Juffermans, Kasper, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Local Languaging, Literacy and Multilingualism in a West African Society / Kasper Juffermans. Bristol ; Blue Ridge Summit : Multilingual Matters, [2015] ©2015 1 online resource text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Critical Language and Literacy Studies Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures and Tables -- Series Editors' Preface -- 1. How Many Languages Do You Speak? -- 2. Gambia's Local Languages -- 3. Englishing and Imaging in the Linguistic Landscape -- 4. Voices on English and Local Languages in Education -- 5. Collaborative Literacy Repertoires -- 6. Writing Mandinka in the Presence of English -- 7. Local Languaging Regimes -- References -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star This book aims to enhance and challenge our understanding of language and literacy as social practice against the background of heightened globalisation. Juffermans presents an ethnographic study of the linguistic landscape of The Gambia, arguing that language should be conceptualised as a verb (languaging) rather than a countable noun (a language, languages). He goes on to argue that sociolinguistics should not be defined as the study of 'who speaks what language to whom, and when and to what end' (as Fishman defined it), but as the study of who uses which linguistic features under particular circumstances in a particular place and time. The book is therefore in part an exercise to unpluralise language, which Juffermans argues is necessary for a more realistic understanding of what language is, what it does, and what people do with it. The book will be of interest to sociolinguistics researchers, especially those focusing on Africa and the global South. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 07. Jul 2020) Language and languages Africa, West. Language and languages. Literacy Africa, West. Multilingualism Africa, West. Sociolinguistics Africa, West. Languaging. Linguistic landscape. Literacy. Local language. Multilingualism. Superdiversity. The Gambia. LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Sociolinguistics. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter MultiLingual Matters eBook Package Backlist 2000-2015 9783110663136 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter MultiLingual Matters ebook Package 2015-2017 9783110606706 print 9781783094202 https://doi.org/10.21832/9781783094219 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781783094219 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9781783094219.jpg |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures and Tables -- Series Editors' Preface -- 1. How Many Languages Do You Speak? -- 2. Gambia's Local Languages -- 3. Englishing and Imaging in the Linguistic Landscape -- 4. Voices on English and Local Languages in Education -- 5. Collaborative Literacy Repertoires -- 6. Writing Mandinka in the Presence of English -- 7. Local Languaging Regimes -- References -- Index |
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