Comparing rural multilingualism in lowland south America and western Africa

Friederike Lüpke; Kristine Stenzel; Flora Dias Cabalzar; Thiago Chacon; Aline Da Cruz; Bruna Franchetto; Antonio Guerreiro; Sérgio Meira; Glauber Romling Da Silva; Wilson Silva; Luciana Storto; Leonor Valentino; Hein Van Der Voort; Rachel Watson

doi:10.1353/anl.2020.0002

Comparing rural multilingualism in lowland south America and western Africa

Friederike Lüpke, Kristine Stenzel, Flora Dias Cabalzar, Thiago Chacon, Aline Da Cruz, Bruna Franchetto, Antonio Guerreiro, Sérgio Meira, Glauber Romling Da Silva, Wilson Silva, Luciana Storto, Leonor Valentino, Hein Van Der Voort, Rachel Watson

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This article explores and compares multilingualism in small-scale societies of Western Africa and Lowland South America. All are characterized by complex and extensive multilingual practices and regional exchange systems established before the onset of globalization and its varying impacts. Through overviews of the general historical and organizational features of regions, vignette case studies, and a discussion of transformative processes affecting them, we show that small-scale multilingual societies present challenges to existing theorization of language as well as approaches to language description and documentation. We aim to bring these societies and issues to the fore, promoting discussion among a broader audience.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	3-57
Number of pages	55
Journal	Anthropological Linguistics
Volume	62
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1353/anl.2020.0002
State	Published - Mar 1 2020

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Anthropology
Linguistics and Language

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