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Author: Cécile B. Vigouroux , Salikoko S. Mufwene , Professor Jan Blommaert (Director of Babylon, Centre for the Study of Multicultural Societies, University of Tilberg, The Netherlands)
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint: Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.
Dimensions:
Width: 15.60cm
, Height: 2.30cm
, Length: 23.40cm
Weight: 0.567kg
ISBN: 9780826495143
ISBN 10: 0826495141
Pages: 272
Publication Date: 05 November 2008
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Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Language: English
Table of Contents
Contributors Acknowledgments 1. Introduction, Salikoko S. Mufwene (University of Chicago, USA) and Cécile B. Vigouroux (Simon Fraser University, Canada) 2. Trajectories of Language Endangerment in South Africa, Rajend Mesthrie (University of Cape Town, South Africa) 3. The Circumstances of Language Shift and Death in Southern Africa, Herman M. Batibo (University of Botswana, Botswana) 4. African Modernity, Transnationalism, and Language Vitality: Portuguese in Multilingual Mozambique, Christopher Stroud (University of the Western Cape, South Africa) 5. The Lives of Local and Regional Congolese Languages in Globalized Linguistic Markets, Eyamba G. Bokamba (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA) 6. Globalization and Sociolinguistic Stratification in North Africa: The case of Morocco, Ahmed Boukous (IRCAM, Morocco) 7. The Ascent of Wolof as an Urban Vernacular and National Lingua Franca in Senegal, Fiona Mc Laughlin (University of Florida, USA) 8. On the Futurology of Linguistic Development, Robert Chaudenson (Université d' Aix-Marseille, France) 9. Globalization and the Sociolinguistics of the Internet: Between English and Kiswahili, Alamin Mazrui (Ohio State University, USA) 10. Writing Locality in Globalized Swahili: Semiotizing Space in a Tanzanian novel, Jan Blommaert (Institute of Education, UK) 11. From Africa to Africa: Globalization, Migration and Language Vitality, Cécile B. Vigouroux (Simon Fraser University, Canada) 12. Creating the Conditions for a Counter-Hegemonic Strategy: African Languages in the Twenty-First Century, Neville Alexander (University of Cape Town, South Africa) Bibliography Author Index Subject Index
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A superb collection of essays by well-known regional specialists on a topic that will affect more and more African speech communities in the near future. - Professor Gerrit J. Dimmendaal, Institute for African Studies, University of Cologne, Germany
Author Information
Cécile B. Vigouroux is Assistant Professor in the Department of Romance Languages at Simon Fraser University, Canada. Salikoko S. Mufwene is the Frank J. McLoraine Distinguished Service Professor of Linguistics as well as Professor on the Committee on Evolutionary Biology at the University of Chicago, USA. Jan Blommaert is Professor of Language, Culture and Globalization and Director of Babylon, Center for the Study of Superdiversity at Tilburg University, The Netherlands. He also holds appointments at Ghent University (Belgium) and the University of the Western Cape (South Africa). He is the author of Discourse: A Critical Introduction (2005), The Sociolinguistics of Globalization 2010) and Ethnography, Superdiversity and Linguistic Landscapes: Chronicles of Complexity (2013).
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