TY - BOOK ID - 30728760 TI - Repertoires and choices in african languages AU - Lüpke, Friederike AU - Storch, Anne PY - 2013 SN - 1614511942 9781614512516 1614512515 9781614511946 1299722326 PB - Berlin DB - UniCat KW - Multilingualism KW - Linguistic change KW - Languages in contact KW - Language and culture KW - Language and languages KW - Variation KW - Africa KW - Languages. KW - Foreign languages KW - Languages KW - Culture and language KW - Change, Linguistic KW - Language change KW - Plurilingualism KW - Polyglottism KW - Anthropology KW - Communication KW - Ethnology KW - Information theory KW - Meaning (Psychology) KW - Philology KW - Linguistics KW - Culture KW - Areal linguistics KW - Historical linguistics KW - Afrikanische Sprachen. KW - Afrikanska språk. KW - Flerspråkighet. KW - Language and culture. KW - Language and languages. KW - Languages in contact. KW - Linguistic change. KW - Mehrsprachigkeit. KW - Multilingualism. KW - Soziolinguistik. KW - Sprachvariante. KW - Sprachwandel. KW - Språk och samhälle. KW - Språkförändringar. KW - Språkkontakter. KW - Språkvariation. KW - Variation. KW - Africa. KW - Afrika. KW - African Languages. KW - Language Contact. KW - Language Ideology. KW - Linguistic Change. KW - Sociolinguistics. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:30728760 AB - Most African languages are spoken by communities as one of several languages present on a daily basis. The persistence of multilingualism and the linguistic creativity manifest in the playful use of different languages are striking, especially against the backdrop of language death and expanding monolingualism elsewhere in the world. The effortless mastery of several languages is disturbing, however, for those who take essentialist perspectives that see it as a problem rather than a resource, and for the dominating, conflictual, sociolinguistic model of multilingualism. This volume investigates African minority languages in the context of changing patterns of multilingualism, and also assesses the status of African languages in terms of existing influential vitality scales. An important aspect of multilingual praxis is the speakers' agency in making choices, their repertoires of registers and the multiplicity of language ideology associated with different ways of speaking. The volume represents a new and original contribution to the ethnography of speaking of multilingual practices and the cultural ideas associated with them. ER -