Vol. 27 No. 2 (2018): Nordic Journal of African Studies
Linguistics

Multilingualism, translanguaging, and linguistic superdiversity: An Africanist’s perspective on ‘language’

H. Ekkehard Wolff
University of Leipzig, Germany & Rhodes University, South Africa
Nordic Journal of African Studies

Published 2018-11-11

How to Cite

Wolff, H. E. (2018). Multilingualism, translanguaging, and linguistic superdiversity: An Africanist’s perspective on ‘language’. Nordic Journal of African Studies, 27(2), 21. https://doi.org/10.53228/njas.v27i2.333

Abstract

This presentation aspires to contribute a personal view to the current debate in post-structuralist sociolinguistics, which centres on new buzzwords like, most of all, translanguaging and superdiversity.