Rethinking Language Use in Digital Africa - Technology and Communication in Sub-Saharan Africa

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.

About the author

Leketi Makalela works in the Wits School of Education, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa. His research interests include translanguaging, African multilingualism and African languages and literacies.
Goodith White is Senior Research Fellow, University of Nottingham, Malaysia. Her research interests include language use in Africa, language pedagogy and the use of technology in political and educational contexts.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Assisted by: Leketi Makalela (Editor), Goodith White (Editor)
• Publisher: Multilingual Matters
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2021
• EAN: 9781800412309
• ISBN: 978-1-80041-230-9
• No. of pages: 216
• Dimensions: 161 mm x 240 mm x 16 mm
• Weight: 493 g
• Series: New Perspectives on Language a
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > IT, data processing > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > General, dictionaries