Decolonising Multilingualism in Africa

Recentering Silenced Voices from the Global South
Erscheinungsjahr 2021
ISBN: 978-1-78892-334-7
Verlag: Multilingual Matters

Buch, Englisch, Band 26, 189 Seiten, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm, Gewicht: 276 g

Reihe: Critical Language and Literacy Studies

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ndhlovu, Finex

Makalela, Leketi

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Mehrsprachigkeit
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kolonialgeschichte, Geschichte des Imperialismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Postkoloniale Geschichte, Nationale Befreiung und Unabhängigkeit

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

Chapter 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 Old

Chapter 9. Recentering Silenced Lingualisms and Voices

Über Autor(innen)

Makalela, Leketi
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.

Ndhlovu, Finex
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).

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.