African Englishes and Multilingualism for the Transformative Development of Postcolonial Africa - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1350510076 ISBN 13: 9781350510074

Publisher: Zed Books, 2025

Synopsis

This open access edited volume brings together a team of linguists to explore how indigenized varieties of English and multilingualism interact with the holistic transformation of Africa. Contributors discuss the transformative development vision for Africa with a focus on ex-colonial languages, indigenized varieties and indigenous mother tongues. In doing so, they explore linguistic evolution and developments towards endonormativity, investigate the correlation between the Africanisation of English and transformative development, the indiginization of medical terminology in HIV/AIDS consultations, the interactions of Romance languages with local English varieties, and resonances between decolonizing multilingualisms in Singapore and Africa. Going beyond traditional emphases on economic and industrial progress, the authors gathered here ultimately develop new analytical frameworks that align with African realities and priorities and ultimately promote the decolonisation of the African minds, which remains a work in progress. The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by the Bloomsbury Open Collections Library Collective.

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About the Authors

Aloysius Ngefac is Professor at University of Yaounde I, Cameroon

Paul Zang Zang is Professor at University of Yaounde I, Cameroon.

Thorsten Brato is Professor at University of Regensburg, Germany.

Jakob R. E. Leimgruber is Professor of English Linguistics at the University of Regensburg, Germany.

Edition details

• Publisher: Zed Books
• Publication date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1350510076
• ISBN 13: 9781350510074
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 256
• Editor: Ngefac Aloysius