Professori Friederike Lüpke esitelmöi

Hei kaikki,

toivotan kaikki tervetulleeksi kuulemaan professori Friederike Lüpken esitelmää African multilingualisms and ideas of owning and sharing languages (ks. abstrakti alla).

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Minna Maijala & Ilmari Ivaska

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Friederike Lüpke: African multilingualisms and ideas of owning and sharing languages

With ca. 2,700 named languages, Africa is one of the global hotspots of multilingualism and linguistic diversity. Ideas of language and ways in which named languages are construed, owned and shared are equally diverse and not matched by ontologies and categories stemming from European nationalist language ideologies exported in the wake of colonisation, although these ideas have left traces in (re)imaginations of languages and identities and underpin official language policies. In this talk, I offer insight into language ideas and their correlations with particular patterns of language use through a number of case studies, exploring how they challenge received Northern notions such as ‘mother tongue’, ‘heritage language’, ‘L1’, ‘ethnic language, etc., but focussing on alternative imaginations grounded in African experiences.