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African Multilingualisms - Rural Linguistic and Cultural Diversity (Hardcover)
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African Multilingualisms - Rural Linguistic and Cultural Diversity (Hardcover)
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Although multilingualism is the norm in the day-to-day lives of
most sub-Saharan Africans, multilingualism in settings outside of
cities has so far been under-explored. This gap is striking when
considering that in many parts of Africa, individual
multilingualism was widespread long before the colonial period and
centuries before the continent experienced large-scale
urbanization. The edited collection African Multilingualisms fills
this gap by presenting results from recent and ongoing research
based on fieldwork in rural African environments as well as
environments characterized by contact between urban and rural
communities of speakers. The contributors-mostly Africans
themselves, including a number of emerging scholars-present
findings that both complement and critique current scholarship on
African multilingualism. In addition, new methods and tools are
introduced for the study of multilingualism in rural settings,
alongside illustrations of the kinds of results that they yield.
African Multilingualisms reveals an impressive diversity in the
features of local language ideologies, multilingual behaviors, and
the relationship between language and identity.
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