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Urban Wolof across Borders

Translanguaging while Transmigrating

Aziz Dieng

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Springer International Publishing img Link Publisher

Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik / Sonstige Sprachen / Sonstige Literaturen

Beschreibung

This book takes urban Wolof beyond Senegal to consider the effects of mobility on language and examine how the diasporans engage in their daily language practices as transmigrants. The parallel between languaging and migrating underpins the author's argument, as he examines the dynamicity of languaging at both micro and macro levels, as speakers navigate across spaces and languages. Moving away from a code-based approach, the author makes a compelling case that the urbanite, rather than shuttling between codes, deploys instead idiolectal features from a unique linguistic repertoire which comprises at once semiotic, cognitive, and language features. His indigenous approach affords novel perspectives in linguistic ethnography and complements the Euro-Western methodologies.

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Diasporic Africans, Hermeneutic phenomenology, Linguistic ethnography, Transmigration, Translanguaging, Francophone Africa, Urban Wolof