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This is a comprehensive and diverse examination of the effects of globalization on languages in Africa, aimed at students and researchers interested in language endangerment and change.This book discusses the effects of globalization on languages in Africa. In contrast to previou...s studies, the contributors examine whether or not globalization is affecting African languages in the same ways and at the same rate in different countries, and how local experiences of language change vary from place to place. Rather than seeing English as the 'killer language' par excellence, the contributors probe ways in which languages are being used side by side to complement each other in some contexts while competing against European colonial languages in others. The result is a diverse canvas of language vitality in the African context, including matters of endangerment and loss, through the lense of globalization in its various interpretations.This book is a must read for students and researchers interested in language change and death and in the fate of European languages in the rest of the world.
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| ISBN |
9780826495150 |
| Released NZ |
5 Nov 2008 |
| Publisher |
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Format |
Paperback |
| Alternate Format(s) |
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| Language |
English
(translated from: English)
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| Availability |
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Full details for this title
| ISBN-13 |
9780826495150 |
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| Stock |
Available |
| Status |
Indent title (internationally sourced), allow 8-12 weeks |
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| Publisher |
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Imprint |
Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd. |
| Released |
5 Nov 2008
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| Publication Country |
 United Kingdom |
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| Format |
Paperback
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| Language |
English |
| Translated from |
English |
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| Author(s) |
Edited by Vigouroux, Cecile B.
Edited by Mufwene, Salikoko S.
Contributions by Blommaert, Professor Jan |
| Category |
Sociolinguistics
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| Number of Pages |
302 |
| Dimensions |
Width: 156mm
Height: 234mm
Spine: 18mm |
| Dewey Code |
306.44096 |
| Weight |
454g |
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| Interest Age |
19+ years |
| Reading Age |
19+ years |
| Library of Congress |
Africa - Languages, Linguistic geography, African languages, Languages in contact - Africa, Language and culture - Africa |
| NBS Text |
Linguistics |
| ONIX Text |
Professional and scholarly |
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Awards, Reviews & Star Ratings
| NZ Review |
Vigouroux and Mufwene, together with the important cast they have assembled, are to be congratulated for producing one if the best applied linguistics books of recent years...--Springer (Lang Policy 2010) |
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Author's Bio
Cecile 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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