Local Languaging, Literacy and Multilingualism in a West African Society

This book aims to enhance and challenge our understanding of language and literacy as social practices against the background of heightened globalisation. Juffermans presents an ethnographic study of The Gambia, arguing that language should be conceptualised as a verb (languaging) rather than a countable noun (a language, languages).

About the author

Kasper Juffermans is a sociolinguist and Africanist at the Institute for Research on Multilingualism at the University of Luxembourg. His research interests include language-in-education policies; linguistic landscapes; and language in mobility and migration.

Summary

This book aims to enhance and challenge our understanding of language and literacy as social practices against the background of heightened globalisation. Juffermans presents an ethnographic study of The Gambia, arguing that language should be conceptualised as a verb (languaging) rather than a countable noun (a language, languages).

Product details

• Authors: Kasper Juffermans, Juffermans Kasper
• Publisher: Channel View Publications
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 14.09.2015
• EAN: 9781783094202
• ISBN: 978-1-78309-420-2
• No. of pages: 192
• Dimensions: 147 mm x 211 mm x 15 mm
• Weight: 363 g
• Series: Critical Language and Literacy Studies; Critical Language and Literacy Studies; Critical Language and Literacy
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics