When: |
04 Dec 2024 through 07 Dec 2024 | |
CFP Deadline: |
21 |
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Where: |
Pretoria, Gauteng South Africa | |
Website URL: |
https://glocal.soas.ac.uk/afala2024/cfp/ | |
Sponsoring organization: |
University of South Africa and GLOCAL at SOAS University of London | |
Categories: |
Social Sciences - Linguistics |
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Code and Commodification, as the New Decolonization
Ikhodi kanye Nempahla, njenge-Decolonization Entsha
The African context is complex, with a cultural diversity that far exceeds its geographical expanse. These diverse cultural scapes throughout the African continent and African diaspora globally overlap, yet so do African languages, dialects, sociolects, and genres. The infinitely diverse semiotics of these languages complexify that which is already complex.
Central to this complexity of African languages, language varieties, and ethnoscapes, is the ubiquitous mixing of language and cultural codes, which form the materiality of African identities. Sociocultural code-mixing can be contested, yet language code-mixing is widely seen as mandatory, to embody progressive, liberal, and anti-conformist African ideologies. Speakers language code mixing ubiquitously across African contexts, creating a commodity with which to legitimize emergent identities, in acts of decoloniza...
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