African Multilingualisms: Rural Linguistic and Cultural Diversity - Paperback

by Pierpaolo Di Carlo (Editor), Jeff Good (Editor), Pius W. Akumbu (Contribution by)

African Multilingualisms is the first book dedicated to presenting case studies of small-scale multilingualism in rural Africa. Contributors present extensive new data on sociolinguistic patterns found in these contexts and consider new, more ethnographically sensitive methods for exploring multilingualism of this kind.

Author Biography

Pierpaolo Di Carlo is a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Linguistics at University at Buffalo, The State University of New York. Jeff Good is professor in the Department of Linguistics at University at Buffalo, The State University of New York.