Rethinking language use in digital Africa : technology and communication in Sub-Saharan Africa /

"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 decolonizat...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Makalela, Leketi (Editor ), White, Goodith (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bristol, UK ; Blue Ridge Summit, PA : Multilingual Matters, [2021]
Colección:New perspectives on language and education ; 92.
Temas:
Multilingualism > Africa, Sub-Saharan.
Translanguaging (Linguistics)
Digital communications > Africa, Sub-Saharan.
Digital media > Social aspects > Africa, Sub-Saharan.
Language policy > Africa, Sub-Saharan.
Multilinguisme > Afrique subsaharienne.
Translanguaging.
Transmission numérique > Afrique subsaharienne.
Médias numériques > Afrique subsaharienne > Aspect social.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Communication Studies.
Digital communications
Digital media > Social aspects
Language policy
Multilingualism
Sub-Saharan Africa
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Multilingual Literacies and Technology in Africa: Towards Ubuntu Digital Translanguaging / Leketi Makalela
  • Translanguaging in the Rwandan Social Media: New Meaning Making in a Changing Society / Epimaque Niyibizi, Cyprien Niyomugabo and Juliet Perumal
  • Creating Translated Interfaces: The Representations of African Languages and Cultures in Digital Media / Elvis ResCue and G. Edzordzi Agbozo
  • Mdocumentation: Combining New Technologies and Language Documentation to Promote Multilingualism in Nubian Heritage Language Learners of the Diaspora / Kirsty Rowan
  • A Network of Anger and Hope: An Investigation of Communication on a Feminist Activist Facebook Website, The Network of Eritrean Women (RENEW) / Sarah Ogbay & Goodith White
  • Identity, Language and Literacy in an African Digital Landscape / Bonny Norton
  • Networked Poetics: WhatsApp Poetry Groups and Malawian Aesthetic Networks / Susanna Sacks
  • Human-Agent Interaction: L1-mode Intelligent Software Agents Instructing Nigerian L2 Speakers of English During Assembly Tasks / Abdulmalik Yusuf Ofemile
  • Conclusion.

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