FROM HUMAN LINGUISTICS TO SYSTEM ‘D’ AND SPONTANEOUS ORDERS: AN APPROACH TO THE EMERGENCE OF INDIGENOUS AFRICAN LANGUAGES
- V. 17, N. 2 (2018)
- Submitted: Jan 28, 2019
- Published: Jun 19, 2019
- DOI 10.25189/rabralin.v17i2.511
Abstract
Language practices have been seen through frameworks - such as translingualism, code mixing, superdiversity, and metrolinguism - motivated by the intent to capture some of the contemporary sociolinguistic diversity or capture the diversities that have occurred historically - but lost because of the analytical frameworks used - underlining the need to expand the “epistemological repertoires”. This article follows this search logic by expanding epistemological analytical repertoires to describe sociolinguistic diversity, focusing on socio-historical contexts of Africa, analyzing how indigenous languages were appropriated as the first languages by African speakers, as well as it explores the implications of a human linguistic perspective in linguistic planning.
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