Description: Further DetailsTitle: Repertoires and Choices in African LanguagesCondition: NewISBN-10: 1614512515EAN: 9781614512516ISBN: 9781614512516Publisher: De Gruyter MoutonFormat: HardbackRelease Date: 05/21/2013Description: 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. Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 230mmItem Length: 155mmItem Weight: 748gAuthor: Friederike Lüpke, Anne StorchGenre: Language & ReferenceBook Series: Language Contact and Bilingualism [LCB]Release Year: 2013 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: Repertoires and Choices in African Languages
Title: Repertoires and Choices in African Languages
ISBN-10: 1614512515
EAN: 9781614512516
ISBN: 9781614512516
Release Date: 05/21/2013
Release Year: 2013
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Item Height: 230mm
Genre: Language & Reference
Number of Pages: 433 Pages
Publication Name: Repertoires and Choices in African Languages
Language: English
Publisher: DE Gruyter, Inc.
Subject: Linguistics / Sociolinguistics, General, Linguistics / Historical & Comparative, Linguistics / General
Publication Year: 2013
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 26.4 Oz
Subject Area: Language Arts & Disciplines
Author: Friederike Lüpke, Anne Storch
Item Length: 9.1 in
Item Width: 6.1 in
Series: Language Contact and Bilingualism [Lcb] Ser.
Format: Hardcover
