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This book is the first to offer an interdisciplinary and
comprehensive reference work on the often-marginalised languages of
southern Africa. The authors analyse a range of different concepts
and questions, including language and sociality, social and
political history, multilingual government, and educational
policies. In doing so, they present significant original research,
ensuring that the work will remain a key reference point for the
subject. This ambitious and wide-ranging edited collection will
appeal to students and scholars of southern African languages,
sociolinguistics, history and politics.
This book interrogates and problematises African multilingualism as
it is currently understood in language education and research. It
challenges the enduring colonial matrices of power hidden within
mainstream conceptions of multilingualism that have been propagated
in the Global North and then exported to the Global South under the
aegis of colonial modernity and pretensions of universal epistemic
relevance. The book contributes new points of method, theory and
interpretation that will advance scholarly conversations on
decolonial epistemology by introducing the notion of coloniality of
language - a summary term that describes the ways in which notions
of language and multilingualism in post-colonial societies remain
colonial. The authors begin the process of mapping out what a
socially realistic notion of multilingualism would look like if we
took into account the voices of marginalised and ignored African
communities of practice - both on the African continent and in the
diasporas.
This book interrogates and problematises African multilingualism as
it is currently understood in language education and research. It
challenges the enduring colonial matrices of power hidden within
mainstream conceptions of multilingualism that have been propagated
in the Global North and then exported to the Global South under the
aegis of colonial modernity and pretensions of universal epistemic
relevance. The book contributes new points of method, theory and
interpretation that will advance scholarly conversations on
decolonial epistemology by introducing the notion of coloniality of
language - a summary term that describes the ways in which notions
of language and multilingualism in post-colonial societies remain
colonial. The authors begin the process of mapping out what a
socially realistic notion of multilingualism would look like if we
took into account the voices of marginalised and ignored African
communities of practice - both on the African continent and in the
diasporas.
This book examines the linguistic and discursive elements of social
and economic policies and national political leader statements to
read new meanings into debates on border protection, national
sovereignty, immigration, economic indigenisation, land reform and
black economic empowerment. It adds a fresh angle to the debate on
nationalisms and transnationalism by pushing forward a more applied
agenda to establish a clear and empirically-based illustration of
the contradictions in current policy frameworks around the world
and the debates they invite. The author's novel vernacular
discourse approach contributes new points of method and
interpretation that will advance scholarly conversations on
nationalisms, transnationalism and other forms of identity
imaginings in a transient world.
This book examines the linguistic and discursive elements of social
and economic policies and national political leader statements to
read new meanings into debates on border protection, national
sovereignty, immigration, economic indigenisation, land reform and
black economic empowerment. It adds a fresh angle to the debate on
nationalisms and transnationalism by pushing forward a more applied
agenda to establish a clear and empirically-based illustration of
the contradictions in current policy frameworks around the world
and the debates they invite. The author's novel vernacular
discourse approach contributes new points of method and
interpretation that will advance scholarly conversations on
nationalisms, transnationalism and other forms of identity
imaginings in a transient world.
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