Rethinking language use in digital Africa : technology and communication in Sub-Saharan Africa /: technology and communication in Sub-Saharan Africa. (2021)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Leketi Makalela, Goodith White.
• Editors: Makalela, Leketi; White, Goodith
• Contents: Contributors; Introduction Part 1: Multilingual Practices 1. Leketi Makalela: Multilingual Literacies and Technology in Africa: Towards Ubuntu Digital Translanguaging 2. Epimaque Niyibizi, Cyprien Niyomugabo & Juliet Perumal: Translanguaging in the Rwandan Social Media: New Meaning Making in a Changing Society Part 2: Linguistic and Cultural Maintenance 3. Elvis ResCue & G. Edzordzi Agbozo: Creating Translated Interfaces: The Representations of African Languages and Cultures in Digital Media 4. Kirsty Rowan: Mdocumentation: Combining New Technologies and Language Documentation to Promote Multilingualism in Nubian Heritage Language Learners of the Diaspora Part 3: The Effects of Communication Outside Africa 5. Sarah Ogbay & Goodith White: A Network of Anger and Hope: An Investigation of Communication on a Feminist Activist Facebook Website, The Network of Eritrean Women (RENEW) 6. Bonny Norton: Identity, Language and Literacy in an African Digital Landscape 7. Susanna Sacks: Networked Poetics: WhatsApp Poetry Groups and Malawian Aesthetic Networks Part 4: Language Change 8. Abdulmalik Yusuf Ofemile: Human–Agent Interaction: L1-mode Intelligent Software Agents Instructing Nigerian L2 Speakers of English During Assembly Tasks Conclusion; Index
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: Bristol : Multilingual Matters
• Publication Date: 2021
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 306.4460967; Multilingualism -- Africa, Sub-Saharan; Translanguaging (Linguistics); Digital communications -- Africa, Sub-Saharan; Digital media -- Social aspects -- Africa, Sub-Saharan
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781800412323; 9781800412316
• Related ISBNs: 9781800412309; 9781800412293
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