This is a comprehensive and diverse examination of the effects of
globalization on languages in Africa, aimed at students and
researchers interested in language endangerment and change.This
book discusses the effects of globalization on languages in Africa.
In contrast to previous studies, the contributors examine whether
or not globalization is affecting African languages in the same
ways and at the same rate in different countries, and how local
experiences of language change vary from place to place. Rather
than seeing English as the 'killer language' par excellence, the
contributors probe ways in which languages are being used side by
side to complement each other in some contexts while competing
against European colonial languages in others. The result is a
diverse canvas of language vitality in the African context,
including matters of endangerment and loss, through the lense of
globalization in its various interpretations.This book is a must
read for students and researchers interested in language change and
death and in the fate of European languages in the rest of the
world.
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