书目名称 | Sociolinguistics in African Contexts | 副标题 | Perspectives and Cha | 编辑 | Augustin Emmanuel Ebongue,Ellen Hurst | 视频video | | 概述 | Offers a new perspective on sociolinguistics in Africa, focussing on the social dynamics of African languages and African societies.Includes research on language vitality and endangerment, urban, rura | 丛书名称 | Multilingual Education | 图书封面 |  | 描述 | This volume offers a new perspective on sociolinguistics in Africa. Eschewing the traditional approach which looks at the interaction between European and African languages in the wake of colonialism, this book turns its focus to the social dynamics of African languages and African societies. Divided into two sections, the book offers insight into the crucial topics such as: language vitality and endangerment, the birth of ‘new languages’, a sociolinguistics of the city, language contact and language politics. It spans the continent from Algeria to South Africa, Guinea-Bissau to Kenya and addresses the following broad themes: .Language variation, contact and change.The dynamics of urban, rural and youth languages.Policy and practice.This book provides an alternative to the Eurocentric view of sociolinguistic dynamics in Africa, and will make an ideal read or supplemental textbook for scholars and students inthe field/disciplines of African languages and linguistics, and those interested in southern theory or ‘sociolinguistics in the margins’.. | 出版日期 | Book 2017 | 关键词 | African languages; Kirundi slang; Kom language; Language practice and policy; Rural dichotomies and yout | 版次 | 1 | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-49611-5 | isbn_softcover | 978-3-319-84199-1 | isbn_ebook | 978-3-319-49611-5Series ISSN 2213-3208 Series E-ISSN 2213-3216 | issn_series | 2213-3208 | copyright | Springer International Publishing AG 2017 |
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