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Decolonising Multilingualism in Africa : Recentering Silenced Voices from the Global South / Finex Ndhlovu, Leketi Makalela.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Critical Language and Literacy Studies ; 26Publisher: Bristol ; Blue Ridge Summit : Multilingual Matters, [2021]Copyright date: ©2021Description: 1 online resource (200 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781788923354
  • 9781788923361
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306.446096 23
LOC classification:
  • P115.5.A35 N37 2021
  • P115.5.A35 N37 2021
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Series Editors’ Preface -- Preface -- 1 Myths We Live By: Multilingualism, Colonial Inventions -- 2 Unsettling Colonial Roots of Multilingualism -- 3 Unsettling Multilingualism in Language and Literacy Education -- 4 Decolonising Multilingualism in Higher Education -- 5 Decolonising Multilingualism in National Language Policies -- 6 African Vehicular Cross-Border Languages, Multilingualism Discourse -- 7 African Multilingualism, Immigrants, Diasporas -- 8 Multilingualism from Below: Languaging with a Seven Year Old -- 9 Recentring Silenced Lingualisms and Voices -- Index
Summary: This book interrogates and problematises African multilingualism as it is currently understood in language education and research. It challenges the enduring colonial matrices of power hidden within mainstream conceptions of multilingualism that have been propagated in the Global North and then exported to the Global South.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Series Editors’ Preface -- Preface -- 1 Myths We Live By: Multilingualism, Colonial Inventions -- 2 Unsettling Colonial Roots of Multilingualism -- 3 Unsettling Multilingualism in Language and Literacy Education -- 4 Decolonising Multilingualism in Higher Education -- 5 Decolonising Multilingualism in National Language Policies -- 6 African Vehicular Cross-Border Languages, Multilingualism Discourse -- 7 African Multilingualism, Immigrants, Diasporas -- 8 Multilingualism from Below: Languaging with a Seven Year Old -- 9 Recentring Silenced Lingualisms and Voices -- Index

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This book interrogates and problematises African multilingualism as it is currently understood in language education and research. It challenges the enduring colonial matrices of power hidden within mainstream conceptions of multilingualism that have been propagated in the Global North and then exported to the Global South.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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