Azala

Rethinking Language Use in Digital Africa

This book challenges the view that digital communication in Africa is limited and relatively unsophisticated and questions the assumption that digital communication has a damaging effect on indigenous African languages. The book applies the principles of Digital African Multilingualism (DAM) in whic...

Deskribapen osoa

Gorde:
Formatua: Online
Hizkuntza:ingelesa
Argitaratua: Multilingual Matters / Channel View Publications 2026
Gaiak:
Southern theory
diaspora
decolonization
language planning
language policy
translanguaging
online communication
digital technology
multilingualism
decolonizing languages
African multilingualism
Language in Africa
Cultural studies
Language and digital literacy
digital communication
African languages
indigenous African languages
language and literacy in Africa
thema EDItEUR::G Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects::GT Interdisciplinary studies::GTC Communication studies
thema EDItEUR::C Language and Linguistics::CF Linguistics::CFB Sociolinguistics
thema EDItEUR::U Computing and Information Technology::UB Information technology: general topics::UBJ Digital and information technologies: social and ethical aspects
Sarrera elektronikoa:ONIX_20260121T145746_9781800412316_17
Etiketak: Etiketa erantsi
Etiketarik gabe, Izan zaitez lehena erregistro honi etiketa jartzen!
Gaia:This book challenges the view that digital communication in Africa is limited and relatively unsophisticated and questions the assumption that digital communication has a damaging effect on indigenous African languages. The book applies the principles of Digital African Multilingualism (DAM) in which there are no rigid boundaries between languages. The book charts a way forward for African languages where greater attention is paid to what speakers do with the languages rather than what the languages look like, and offers several models for language policy and planning based on horizontal and user-based multilingualism. The chapters demonstrate how digital communication is being used to form and sustain communication in many kinds of online groups, including for political activism and creating poetry, and offer a paradigm of language merging online that provides a practical blueprint for the decolonization of African languages through digital platforms. This book is open access under a CC BY NC ND licence.

Antzeko izenburuak