Decolonising Multilingualism in Africa: Recentering Silenced Voices from the Glo

Description: FREE SHIPPING UK WIDE Decolonising Multilingualism in Africa by Finex Ndhlovu, Leketi Makalela 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. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description 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 under the aegis of colonial modernity and pretensions of universal epistemic relevance. The book contributes new points of method, theory and interpretation that will advance scholarly conversations on decolonial epistemology by introducing the notion of coloniality of language - a summary term that describes the ways in which notions of language and multilingualism in post-colonial societies remain colonial. The authors begin the process of mapping out what a socially realistic notion of multilingualism would look like if we took into account the voices of marginalised and ignored African communities of practice - both on the African continent and in the diasporas. Author Biography Finex Ndhlovu is Associate Professor of Language in Society at the University of New England, Australia. He is the author of Language, Vernacular Discourse and Nationalisms: Uncovering the Myths of Transnational Worlds (2018, Palgrave Macmillan).Leketi Makalela works in the Wits School of Education, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa. His research interests include translanguaging, African multilingualism and African languages and literacies. Table of Contents PrefaceChapter 1. Myths We Live By: Multilingualism, Colonial Inventions Chapter 2. Unsettling Colonial Roots of Multilingualism Chapter 3. Unsettling Multilingualism in Language and Literacy Education Chapter 4. Decolonising Multilingualism in Higher Education Chapter 5. Decolonising Multilingualism in National Language Policies Chapter 6. African Vehicular Cross Border Languages, Multilingualism Discourse Chapter 7. African Multilingualism, Immigrants, Diasporas Chapter 8. Multilingualism from Below: Languaging with a Seven Year OldChapter 9. Recentering Silenced Lingualisms and Voices Review This book contributes to the growing interest in southern decolonial linguistics. It reanimates important earlier discussions of the plurality of southern multilingualisms and the linguistic citizenship of individuals and communities with narratives that encourage rethinking the coloniality of language. In reminding us of the many forgotten 20th century contributors to southern decolonial scholarship, the authors accentuate the persistent circulation of colonial hegemonies. * Kathleen Heugh, University of South Australia *Centering the African experience, two world-renowned African sociolinguists push back on the language coloniality that continues to permeate the study of multilingualism, multilingual education, language policy, and language education research in the Global South. Inverting the power relationship between the Global South and the North, Ndhlovu and Makalela decolonize understandings of multilingualism everywhere. * Ofelia García, The Graduate Center, City University of New York, USA *I find Decolonising Multilingualism in Africa to be cohesive, resourceful and well written. It is a welcome addition to the literature on sociolinguistics in Africa and the Global South in general – and I consider it to be required reading for graduate seminars in colonial and post-colonial language ideologies and practices. -- Nkonko Kamwangamalu, Howard University, USA * Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2022 *[This book] advances the field of multilingualism studies both in Africa and globally. Indeed its international relevance is enhanced by the approach of presenting fine-grained research conducted in Africa as illustrations ofdecoloniality within language theorising. Future multilingualism research will certainly benefit from both the critiques of the coloniality of language and the propositions of decolonial linguistic concepts contained within the pages of this book. -- Robyn Tyler, University of the Western Cape, South Africa * Multilingual Margins 2021, 8(1) * Promotional Argues that developing theories of multilingualism requires listening to the language experience stories of marginalised communities Long Description 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 under the aegis of colonial modernity and pretensions of universal epistemic relevance. The book contributes new points of method, theory and interpretation that will advance scholarly conversations on decolonial epistemology by introducing the notion of coloniality of language - a summary term that describes the ways in which notions of language and multilingualism in post-colonial societies remain colonial. The authors begin the process of mapping out what a socially realistic notion of multilingualism would look like if we took into account the voices of marginalised and ignored African communities of practice - both on the African continent and in the diasporas. Review Quote This book contributes to the growing interest in southern decolonial linguistics. It reanimates important earlier discussions of the plurality of southern multilingualisms and the linguistic citizenship of individuals and communities with narratives that encourage rethinking the coloniality of language. In reminding us of the many forgotten 20th century contributors to southern decolonial scholarship, the authors accentuate the persistent circulation of colonial hegemonies. Promotional "Headline" Argues that developing theories of multilingualism requires listening to the language experience stories of marginalised communities Details ISBN1788923340 Publisher Multilingual Matters Language English Year 2021 ISBN-10 1788923340 ISBN-13 9781788923347 Format Paperback Series Number 26 Author Leketi Makalela Imprint Multilingual Matters Country of Publication United Kingdom Pages 208 AU Release Date 2021-07-16 NZ Release Date 2021-07-16 Publication Date 2021-07-16 UK Release Date 2021-07-16 Subtitle Recentering Silenced Voices from the Global South Series Critical Language and Literacy Studies Alternative 9781788923354 DEWEY 306.446096 Audience Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. 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