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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.

Multilingualism --- Language and languages --- Literacy --- Sociolinguistics --- Languaging. --- Linguistic landscape. --- Literacy. --- Local language. --- Multilingualism. --- Superdiversity. --- The Gambia.

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"This book examines the powerful role of writing in society. The invention of writing, independently at various places and times in history, always stood at the cradle of powerful civilizations. It is impossible to imagine modern life without writing. As individuals and social groups we hold high expectations of its potential for societal and personal development. Globally, huge resources have been and are being invested in promoting literacy worldwide. So what could possibly be tyrannical about writing? The title is inspired by Ferdinand de Saussure's argument against writing as an object of linguistic research and what he called la tyrannie de la lettre. His critique denounced writing as an imperfect, distorted image of speech that obscures our view of language and its structure. The chapters of the book, written by experts in language and literacy studies, go beyond this and explore tyrannical aspects of writing in society through history and around the world: from Medieval Novgorod, the European Renaissance and 19th-century France and Germany over colonial Sudan to postcolonial Sri Lanka and Senegal and present-day Hong Kong and Central China to the Netherlands and Spain. The metaphor of 'tyranny of writing' serves as a heuristic for exploring ideologies of language and literacy in culture and society and tensions and contradictions between the written and the spoken word."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

Anthropological linguistics. --- Literacy --- Sociolinguistics. --- Written communication --- Social aspects.

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Africa is often depicted as the continent with the lowest literacy rates in the world. Moving beyond this essentialising representation, this volume explores African literacies within their complex and diverse multilingual and multiscriptal histories and contexts of use. The chapters examine contexts from the Maghreb to Mozambique and from Senegambia to the Horn of Africa and critically analyse multiple literacy genres and practices - from ancient manuscripts to instant messaging - in relatio...

Literacy --- Multilingualism --- Plurilingualism --- Polyglottism --- Language and languages --- Illiteracy --- Education --- General education

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Deze bundel bevat de papers van de Anéla 2012 Conferentie Toegepaste Taalwetenschap. De 34 papers vallen onder de thema's: Taalverwerving en ontwikkeling, Taalvaardigheid en vloeiendheid, Schrijfvaardigheid en ontwikkeling, Geletterdheid en taalbewustzijn, Taaltesten, Tekst, perceptie en evaluatie, Taal, migratie en mobiliteit, Meertalig en multicultureel onderwijs, Curriculum, taalbeleid, didactiek, Taal, cultuur, media, identiteit.

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