Overview
- Offers a new perspective on sociolinguistics in Africa, focussing on the social dynamics of African languages and African societies
- Includes research on language vitality and endangerment, urban, rural, and youth languages, language educational policies and practices
- Covers the entire African continent, from Algeria to South Africa, from Guinea-Bissau to Cameroon and Kenya
Part of the book series: Multilingual Education (MULT, volume 20)
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Table of contents (20 chapters)
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Ideologies
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Practices
Keywords
- African languages
- Kirundi slang
- Kom language
- Language practice and policy
- Rural dichotomies and youth language
- Southern theory
- family language practices in a multilingual environment
- language diversity in Cameroon
- language, culture and identity in the Maghreb
- post-colonial language eduation policies in Sub-Saharan Africa
- revaluation of national and regional languages
- urban plurilingualism in Africa
About this book
Language variation, contact and change
The dynamics of urban, rural and youth languages
Policy and practice
This book provides an alternative to the Eurocentric view of sociolinguistic dynamics in Africa, and will make an ideal read or supplemental textbook for scholars and students inthe field/disciplines of African languages and linguistics, and those interested in southern theory or ‘sociolinguistics in the margins’.
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Sociolinguistics in African Contexts
Book Subtitle: Perspectives and Challenges
Editors: Augustin Emmanuel Ebongue, Ellen Hurst
Series Title: Multilingual Education
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-49611-5
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-49609-2Published: 18 May 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-84199-1Published: 24 June 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-49611-5Published: 11 May 2017
Series ISSN: 2213-3208
Series E-ISSN: 2213-3216
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 349
Number of Illustrations: 18 b/w illustrations
Topics: Language Education, Sociolinguistics, Educational Policy and Politics, African Languages