Towards an understanding of African endogenous multilingualism: ethnography, language ideologies, and the supernatural

In a globalised sociolinguistics “[d]ifferent types of societies must give rise to different types of sociolinguistic study”, as Dick Smakman and Patrick Heinrich argue in the concluding remarks of their (Smakman, Dick. 2015. The westernising mechanisms in sociolinguistics. In Dick Smakman & Pat...

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Bilingualism
Colonial languages
Colonialism
Conditioning
Endogenous
Ethnography
Exceptions
Globalization
Ideology
Language ideologies
Language varieties
Multilingualism
rural Africa
Rural areas
Rural communities
Rural sociology
Sociolinguistics
spiritual insecurity
Spirituality
Supernatural
Urban areas
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