LINGUIST List 26.4096

Wed Sep 16 2015

Books: Local Languaging, Literacy and Multilingualism in a West African Society: Juffermans

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Date: 16-Sep-2015
From: Elinor Robertson <marketingmultilingual-matters.com>
Subject: Local Languaging, Literacy and Multilingualism in a West African Society: Juffermans
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Title: Local Languaging, Literacy and Multilingualism in a West African
Society
Series Title: Critical Language and Literacy Studies
Published: 2015
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
                http://www.multilingual-matters.com/

Book URL: www.multilingual-matters.com/display.asp?isb=9781783094202

Author: Kasper Juffermans
Hardback: ISBN: 9781783094202 Pages: 192 Price: U.K. £ 89.95
Hardback: ISBN: 9781783094202 Pages: 192 Price: U.S. $ 149.95
Abstract:

This book aims to enhance and challenge our understanding of language and literacy as social practice against the background of heightened globalisation. Juffermans presents an ethnographic study of the linguistic landscape of The Gambia, arguing that language should be conceptualised as a verb (languaging) rather than a countable noun (a language, languages). He goes on to argue that sociolinguistics should not be defined as the study of ‘who speaks what language to whom, and when and to what end’ (as Fishman defined it), but as the study of who uses which linguistic features under particular circumstances in a particular place and time. The book is therefore in part an exercise to unpluralise language, which Juffermans argues is necessary for a more realistic understanding of what language is, what it does, and what people do with it. The book will be of interest to sociolinguistics researchers, especially those focusing on Africa and the global South.

Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics
                            General Linguistics
                            Sociolinguistics

Written In: English (eng)

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