New PDF release: Sociolinguistics in African Contexts: Perspectives and

By Augustin Emmanuel Ebongue,Ellen Hurst

This quantity deals a brand new standpoint on sociolinguistics in Africa. Eschewing the conventional method which appears to be like on the interplay among eu and African languages within the wake of colonialism, this publication turns its concentration to the social dynamics of African languages and African societies. Divided into sections, the ebook bargains perception into the an important issues similar to: language power and endangerment, the delivery of ‘new languages’, a sociolinguistics of town, language touch and language politics. It spans the continent from Algeria to South Africa, Guinea-Bissau to Kenya and addresses the subsequent wide themes: 
Language version, touch and change
The dynamics of city, rural and formative years languages
Policy and practice
This ebook presents an alternative choice to the Eurocentric view of sociolinguistic dynamics in Africa, and should make a great learn or supplemental textbook for students and scholars within the field/disciplines of African languages and linguistics, and people drawn to southern concept or ‘sociolinguistics within the margins’.

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