Most African languages are spoken by communities as one of several
languages present on a daily basis. The persistence of
multilingualism and the linguistic creativity manifest in the
playful use of different languages are striking, especially against
the backdrop of language death and expanding monolingualism
elsewhere in the world. The effortless mastery of several languages
is disturbing, however, for those who take essentialist
perspectives that see it as a problem rather than a resource, and
for the dominating, conflictual, sociolinguistic model of
multilingualism. This volume investigates African minority
languages in the context of changing patterns of multilingualism,
and also assesses the status of African languages in terms of
existing influential vitality scales. An important aspect of
multilingual praxis is the speakers' agency in making choices,
their repertoires of registers and the multiplicity of language
ideology associated with different ways of speaking. The volume
represents a new and original contribution to the ethnography of
speaking of multilingual practices and the cultural ideas
associated with them.
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