Overview
This handbook addresses the interrelatedness of nationalism, identity, language, linguistics, and multilingualism in an African context. It covers multilingualism, language and identity, language endangerment, language shift, language maintenance, language contact, diglossia, language decline, language death, language vitality, and much more in, linguistically, one of the richest regions on earth. The variety of alphabets and oral traditions immersed in folklore, made more linguistically complex through issues of inter-borders, and the long history of foreign intrusions and colonialism, has meant a collision of identities and linguistic peculiarities. This book considers these facets in relation to language endangerment in numerous geographies within the African continent. It confronts these questions under the rubric of multilingualism, linguistic geography, and a panoply of other sub-studies. By investigating a multitude of topics around the themes of multilingualism, identity, and language endangerment in Africa, this volume brings together these dimensions to showcase interdisciplinary research in studies of African languages and linguistics. Relevant to applied linguists, socio-linguists, cultural linguistics, language teachers, anthropologists, and scholars in African cultural studies more broadly, this is a vital, urgent text challenging language, and identity, endangerment.
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Author: Alireza Korangy ,
Evgeniya Gutova
Publisher: Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Imprint: Springer Nature Switzerland AG
ISBN: 9789819647286
ISBN 10: 9819647282
Pages: 686
Publication Date: 22 October 2025
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Author Information
Alireza Korangy received his PhD from the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at Harvard University. His field of research is classical Persian and Arabic philology with a special emphasis on poetics, rhetoric, folklore and linguistics. He has done extensive research and published on Iranian and Persian linguistics. He was previously the editor-in-chief of Companions in Iranian Languages as Linguistics at Mouton. He has also published on Iranianfolkloric traditions. Evgeniya Gutova has a PhD in Linguistics from the Sorbonne University (Paris). She is currently a researcher in the Institute for Culture and Society (ICS) of the University of Navarra, funded by the Ministry of Science and Innovation. At the center, she is currently conducting research into multilingualism in Morocco and in the Moroccan community in Spain. She completed her undergraduate and Masters studies at Leiden University in the Netherlands.
