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Multilingualism in Rural Senegal: Linguistic Practices and Perceptions in a Casamance Village

Multilingualism in Rural Senegal: Linguistic Practices and Perceptions in a Casamance Village

Goodchild, Sam

Hardcover

Series: Anthropological Linguistics [Al], Book 6

LinguisticsAnthropologyOther African Languages

PREORDER - Expected ship date June 29, 2027

ISBN10: 3110786508
ISBN13: 9783110786507
Publisher: de Gruyter Mouton
Published: Jun 29 2027
Pages: 320
Language: English

Rural settings have much to challenge, and contribute, to the study of multilingualism, hitherto largely based on urban and northern settings. This monograph is based on a documentation of linguistic practices and perceptions in a village in the Casamance, Senegal, West Africa. Through the study of linguistic biographies, repertoires and language use, this volume incorporates a variety of perspectives into detailed and nuanced analyses of linguistic practices and examines the cultural-ideological links between language and spatiality. It explores different understandings of mono- and multilingualism, using a scalar-chronotopic approach. The village of Essyl is associated with monolingualism and at the same time a default multilingual repertoire, explained as a way of speaking or an inclusive (linguistic) practice. The volume contributes both theoretically and methodologically to the study of multilingualism and engages directly with topical debates around language naming and translanguaging. The book will be of interest to postgraduate students and established researchers in the fields of sociolinguistics and anthropological linguistics, in particular to those working in highly multilingual rural settings.

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