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  title info:
    title: Rethinking language use in digital Africa
    sub title: technology and communication in Sub-Saharan Africa
  name:
    name part: Makalela, Leketi
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: White, Goodith
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Walter de Gruyter & Co
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: pau
    date issued: 2021
    copyright date: 2021
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (xviii, 197 pages).
  abstract: "This book challenges the view that digital communication in Africa is relatively unsophisticated and questions the assumption that digital communication has a damaging effect on indigenous African languages. It offers a paradigm of language merging that provides a blueprint for the decolonization of African languages through digital platforms"--
  table of contents: Introduction -- Multilingual Literacies and Technology in Africa: Towards Ubuntu Digital Translanguaging / Leketi Makalela -- Translanguaging in the Rwandan Social Media: New Meaning Making in a Changing Society / Epimaque Niyibizi, Cyprien Niyomugabo and Juliet Perumal -- Creating Translated Interfaces: The Representations of African Languages and Cultures in Digital Media / Elvis ResCue and G. Edzordzi Agbozo -- Mdocumentation: Combining New Technologies and Language Documentation to Promote Multilingualism in Nubian Heritage Language Learners of the Diaspora / Kirsty Rowan -- A Network of Anger and Hope: An Investigation of Communication on a Feminist Activist Facebook Website, The Network of Eritrean Women (RENEW) / Sarah Ogbay and Goodith White -- Identity, Language and Literacy in an African Digital Landscape / Bonny Norton -- Networked Poetics: WhatsApp Poetry Groups and Malawian Aesthetic Networks / Susanna Sacks -- Human-Agent Interaction: L1-mode Intelligent Software Agents Instructing Nigerian L2 Speakers of English During Assembly Tasks / Abdulmalik Yusuf Ofemile -- Conclusion.
  note: edited by Leketi Makalela and Goodith White.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: fb-----
  subject:
    topic: Multilingualism
    geographic: Africa, Sub-Saharan
  subject:
    topic: Translanguaging (Linguistics)
  subject:
    topic: Digital communications
    geographic: Africa, Sub-Saharan
  subject:
    topic: Digital media
    topic: Social aspects
    geographic: Africa, Sub-Saharan
  subject:
    topic: Language policy
    geographic: Africa, Sub-Saharan
  subject:
    topic: Multilinguisme
    geographic: Afrique subsaharienne
  subject:
    topic: Translanguaging
  subject:
    topic: Transmission numérique
    geographic: Afrique subsaharienne
  subject:
    topic: Médias numériques
    geographic: Afrique subsaharienne
    topic: Aspect social
  subject:
    topic: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Communication Studies
  subject:
    topic: Digital communications
  subject:
    topic: Digital media
    topic: Social aspects
  subject:
    topic: Language policy
  subject:
    topic: Multilingualism
  subject:
    topic: Translanguaging (Linguistics)
  subject:
    geographic: Sub-Saharan Africa
  classification: P115.5.A357 R48 2021
  classification: 306.4460967
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    origin info:
      publisher: Bristol, UK ; Blue Ridge Summit, PA : Multilingual Matters, 2021.
    identifier: (DLC) 2021004707
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  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 210202
    record change date: 20240212223648.5
    record identifier: in00004775547
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng