UID:
almahu_9949195572902882
Format:
1 online resource (224 p.)
ISBN:
9781800412316
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9783110743357
Series Statement:
New Perspectives on Language and Education ; 92
Content:
This book challenges the view that digital communication in Africa is relatively unsophisticated and questions the assumption that digital communication has a damaging effect on indigenous African languages. It offers a paradigm of language merging that provides a blueprint for the decolonization of African languages through digital platforms.
Note:
Frontmatter --
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Contents --
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Contributors --
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Introduction --
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Part 1: Multilingual Practices --
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1 Multilingual Literacies and Technology in Africa: Towards Ubuntu Digital Translanguaging --
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2 Translanguaging in the Rwandan Social Media: New Meaning Making in a Changing Society --
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Part 2: Linguistic and Cultural Maintenance --
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3 Creating Translated Interfaces: The Represen tations of African Langua ges and Cultures in Digital Media --
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4 Mdocumentation: Combining New Technologies and Language Documentation to Promote Multilingualism in Nubian Heritage Language Learners of the Diaspora --
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Part 3: The Effects of Communication Outside Africa --
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5 A Network of Anger and Hope: An Investigation of Communication on a Feminist Activist Facebook Website, the Network of Eritrean Women (RENEW) --
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6 Identity, Language and Literacy in an African Digital Landscape --
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7 Networked Poetics: WhatsApp Poetry Groups and Malawian Aesthetic Networks --
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Part 4: Language Change --
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8 Human-Agent Interaction: L1-mode Intelligent Software Agents Instructing Nigerian L2 Speakers of English During Assembly Tasks --
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Conclusion --
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Index
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Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
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In English.
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Language:
English
Subjects:
General works
DOI:
10.21832/9781800412316
URL:
https://doi.org/10.21832/9781800412316
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781800412316
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