Local Languaging, Literacy and Multilingualism in a West African Society - Juffermans, Kasper
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This book aims to enhance and challenge our understanding of language and literacy as social practices against the background of heightened globalisation. Juffermans presents an ethnographic study of The Gambia, arguing that language should be conceptualised as a verb (languaging) rather than a countable noun (a language, languages).

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This book aims to enhance and challenge our understanding of language and literacy as social practices against the background of heightened globalisation. Juffermans presents an ethnographic study of The Gambia, arguing that language should be conceptualised as a verb (languaging) rather than a countable noun (a language, languages).
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Autorenporträt
Kasper Juffermans has held doctoral and postdoctoral positions at the Universities of Hong Kong, Tilburg, Hamburg and Luxembourg and was a visiting professor of linguistic anthropology at Ghent University, where he also obtained his first degree in African Studies. He is the author of Local Languaging, Literacy and Multilingualism in a West African Society (Multilingual Matters, 2015) and most recently co-edited The Tyranny of Writing: Ideologies of the Written Word (Bloomsbury, 2018, with Constanze Weth). Kasper is currently (loosely) affiliated with the University of Curaçao.