Rethinking Language Use in Digital Africa : : Technology and Communication in Sub-Saharan Africa /

Rethinking Language Use in Digital Africa : : Technology and Communication in Sub-Saharan Africa / / ed. by Goodith White, Leketi Makalela.

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...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus PP Package 2021 Part 2
MitwirkendeR:
Edzordzi Agbozo, G.,
Makalela, Leketi,
Niyibizi, Epimaque,
Niyomugabo, Cyprien,
Norton, Bonny,
Ofemile, Abdulmalik Yusuf,
Ogbay, Sarah,
Perumal, Juliet,
Rescue, Elvis,
Rowan, Kirsty,
Sacks, Susanna,
White, Goodith,
HerausgeberIn:
Makalela, Leketi,
White, Goodith,
Place / Publishing House:Bristol ;, Blue Ridge Summit : : Multilingual Matters, , [2021]
©2021
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
Series:New Perspectives on Language and Education ; 92
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Physical Description:1 online resource (224 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Contributors
  • Introduction
  • Part 1: Multilingual Practices
  • 1 Multilingual Literacies and Technology in Africa: Towards Ubuntu Digital Translanguaging
  • 2 Translanguaging in the Rwandan Social Media: New Meaning Making in a Changing Society
  • Part 2: Linguistic and Cultural Maintenance
  • 3 Creating Translated Interfaces: The Represen tations of African Langua ges and Cultures in Digital Media
  • 4 Mdocumentation: Combining New Technologies and Language Documentation to Promote Multilingualism in Nubian Heritage Language Learners of the Diaspora
  • Part 3: The Effects of Communication Outside Africa
  • 5 A Network of Anger and Hope: An Investigation of Communication on a Feminist Activist Facebook Website, the Network of Eritrean Women (RENEW)
  • 6 Identity, Language and Literacy in an African Digital Landscape
  • 7 Networked Poetics: WhatsApp Poetry Groups and Malawian Aesthetic Networks
  • Part 4: Language Change
  • 8 Human–Agent Interaction: L1-mode Intelligent Software Agents Instructing Nigerian L2 Speakers of English During Assembly Tasks
  • Conclusion
  • Index

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