Not Eleven Languages

Not Eleven Languages PDF Author: Leketi Makalela
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 1614515069
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 163

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Book Description
Dynamic language practices of African multilingual speakers have not been cogently described in a book-length manuscript. This book challenges assumptions that led to South Africa's 11 official languages and makes a case for mutual inter-comprehensibility. Students, teachers, and scholars in sociolinguistics, multilingualism, translanguaging, and teacher education will find this book thought-provoking.

Not Eleven Languages

Not Eleven Languages PDF Author: Leketi Makalela
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 1614515069
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 163

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Book Description
Dynamic language practices of African multilingual speakers have not been cogently described in a book-length manuscript. This book challenges assumptions that led to South Africa's 11 official languages and makes a case for mutual inter-comprehensibility. Students, teachers, and scholars in sociolinguistics, multilingualism, translanguaging, and teacher education will find this book thought-provoking.

Growing up with Three Languages

Growing up with Three Languages PDF Author: Xiao-lei Wang
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
ISBN: 1847695671
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 234

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This book is based on an eleven-year observation of two children who were simultaneously exposed to three languages from birth. It tells the story of two parents from different cultural, linguistic, and ethnic-racial backgrounds who joined to raise their two children with their heritage languages outside their native countries. It also tells the children’s story and the way they negotiated three cultures and languages and developed a trilingual identity. It sheds light on how parental support contributed to the children’s simultaneous acquisition of three languages in an environment where the main input of the two heritage languages came respectively from the father and from the mother. It addresses the challenges and the unique language developmental characteristics of the two children during their trilingual acquisition process.

Law, Language and the Multilingual State

Law, Language and the Multilingual State PDF Author: Claudine Brohy
Publisher: UJ Press
ISBN: 1920382224
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 359

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The theme of the conference, “Language, Law and the Multilingual State”, was determined to investigate the state-juridical challenges facing multilingual societies. Several related issues were addressed, such as minority and indigenous languages, globalisation and diversity, language rights, language ideology and language legislation.

Language and Social History

Language and Social History PDF Author: Rajend Mesthrie
Publisher: New Africa Books
ISBN: 9780864862808
Category : Sociolinguistics
Languages : en
Pages : 376

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Constituent Order in the Languages of Europe

Constituent Order in the Languages of Europe PDF Author: Anna Siewierska
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 3110812207
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 849

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Language in South Africa

Language in South Africa PDF Author: Rajend Mesthrie
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521791052
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 526

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Book Description
A wide-ranging guide to language and society in South Africa. The book surveys the most important language groupings in the region in terms of wider socio-historical processes; contact between the different language varieties; language and public policy issues associated with post-apartheid society and its eleven official languages.

Digital Media and the Preservation of Indigenous Languages in Africa

Digital Media and the Preservation of Indigenous Languages in Africa PDF Author: Fulufhelo Oscar Makananise
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1666957534
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 303

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Book Description
Digital Media and the Preservation of Indigenous Languages in Africa: Toward a Digitalized and Sustainable Society presents cutting-edge epistemological debates, academic case studies, and empirical research from African scholars on the intersection of digital media technologies, artificial intelligence, and the preservation of Indigenous languages in the continent. This edited collection provides a methodology for African researchers, practitioners, and marginalized communities to integrate digital technologies into their lives to foster innovation, advance the documentation and preservation of underrepresented languages, and promote African-centered epistemologies. Contributors to this edited volume argue that African societies should acknowledge and embrace digital media platforms. Despite these platforms’ potential as sites of epistemic colonialism, they are essential for promoting ways of life that reflect the diversity and importance of Indigenous cultures. For Indigenous languages and local epistemologies to flourish in this rapidly evolving technological era, African communities must employ a variety of contemporary practices and strategies to document, protect, and preserve ways of being that have formerly been relegated to the periphery.

Babel No More

Babel No More PDF Author: Michael Erard
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1451628277
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 309

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Book Description
A “fascinating” (The Economist) dive into the world of linguistics that is “part travelogue, part science lesson, part intellectual investigation…an entertaining, informative survey of some of the most fascinating polyglots of our time” (The New York Times Book Review). In Babel No More, Michael Erard, “a monolingual with benefits,” sets out on a quest to meet language superlearners and make sense of their mental powers. On the way he uncovers the secrets of historical figures like the nineteenth-century Italian cardinal Joseph Mezzofanti, who was said to speak seventy-two languages, as well as those of living language-superlearners such as Alexander Arguelles, a modern-day polyglot who knows dozens of languages and shows Erard the tricks of the trade to give him a dark glimpse into the life of obsessive language acquisition. With his ambitious examination of what language is, where it lives in the brain, and the cultural implications of polyglots’ pursuits, Erard explores the upper limits of our ability to learn and use languages and illuminates the intellectual potential in everyone. How do some people escape the curse of Babel—and what might the gods have demanded of them in return?

Black Linguistics

Black Linguistics PDF Author: Arnetha Ball
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134507267
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 241

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Book Description
This groundbreaking collection re-orders the elitist and colonial elements of language studies by drawing together the multiple perspectives of Black language researchers.

Challenges in the Social Life of Language

Challenges in the Social Life of Language PDF Author: John Edwards
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230302203
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 285

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The first book to highlight the most pressing sociology-of-language themes of our times. All of which have to do with the twin issues of power and identity . Important evidence and illustrations bearing upon these matters are provided and supplemented by an extensive bibliography.