Sociolinguistics in African Contexts

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-viii

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2. Dynamic Language: Sociolinguistic Perspectives on African Language, Ideologies and Practices

   • Augustin Emmanuel Ebongue, Ellen Hurst

   Pages 1-9

3. Ideologies

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 11-11

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   2. La résistance du plurilinguisme à Abidjan

      • Béatrice Akissi Boutin

      Pages 13-33

   3. Linguistic Messianism: Multilingualism in Mozambique

      • Christopher Stroud, Manuel Guissemo

      Pages 35-51

   4. Véhicularité des langues camerounaises : Mythe ou réalité?

      • Augustin Emmanuel Ebongue

      Pages 53-71

   5. Usage des langues chez les locuteurs Nda’nda’

      • Guy Merlin Tchagoua

      Pages 73-86

   6. Pratiques et transmission linguistiques dans les familles à Tokombéré: vers un étiolement des langues identitaires?

      • Zacharie Hatolong Boho

      Pages 87-106

   7. “Without English There Is No Future”: The Case of Language Attitudes and Ideologies in Uganda

      • Medadi E. Ssentanda, Judith Nakayiza

      Pages 107-126

   8. Les langues au Maghreb: Identité, Enseignement, Culture et Politique

      • Ali Alalou

      Pages 127-146

   9. Ethnic Stereotypes and Lexical Semantics: The Emergence of the Rural/Urban Opposition in Moroccan Arabic

      • Ahmed Ech-charfi, Lamyae Azzouzi

      Pages 147-169

   10. Représentations linguistiques : le tupuri dans les discours épilinguistiques en milieu scolaire à Maroua

       • Jean Paul Balga

       Pages 171-190

   11. L’incomplétude des politiques de revalorisation des langues nationales en Afrique sub-saharienne

       • Stéphanie Engola

       Pages 191-206

4. Practices

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 207-207

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   2. Rural/Urban Dichotomies and Youth Language

      • Ellen Hurst

      Pages 209-224

   3. The Sociolinguistic Profile and Functions of Luyaaye Within Its Community of Practice

      • Saudah Namyalo

      Pages 225-245

   4. Kirundi Slang – Youth Identity and Linguistic Manipulations

      • Nico Nassenstein

      Pages 247-267

   5. The Ultimate Matthew Effect for Sheng

      • Philip W. Rudd

      Pages 269-285

   6. Urban Youth Language Use in Social Media in Anglophone Cameroon: A Morpho-Syntactic Analysis of Camfranglais Among University of Buea Students

      • Comfort Beyang Oben Ojongnkpot

      Pages 287-300

   7. Le créole de Guinée-Bissau: approche d’une synchronie dynamique

      • Dame Ndao

      Pages 301-314

This volume offers a new perspective on sociolinguistics in Africa. Eschewing the traditional approach which looks at the interaction between European and African languages in the wake of colonialism, this book turns its focus to the social dynamics of African languages and African societies. Divided into two sections, the book offers insight into the crucial topics such as: language vitality and endangerment, the birth of ‘new languages’, a sociolinguistics of the city, language contact and language politics. It spans the continent from Algeria to South Africa, Guinea-Bissau to Kenya and addresses the following broad themes: 


Language variation, contact and change
The dynamics of urban, rural and youth languages
Policy and practice


This book provides an alternative to the Eurocentric view of sociolinguistic dynamics in Africa, and will make an ideal read or supplemental textbook for scholars and students inthe field/disciplines of African languages and linguistics, and those interested in southern theory or ‘sociolinguistics in the margins’.

• African languages
• Kirundi slang
• Kom language
• Language practice and policy
• Rural dichotomies and youth language
• Southern theory
• family language practices in a multilingual environment
• language diversity in Cameroon
• language, culture and identity in the Maghreb
• post-colonial language eduation policies in Sub-Saharan Africa
• revaluation of national and regional languages
• urban plurilingualism in Africa

• Department of French, University of Buea, Buea, Cameroon

  Augustin Emmanuel Ebongue

• Humanities Education Development Unit, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch, Cape Town, South Africa

  Ellen Hurst

Policies and ethics