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• WP353 Linguistic citizenship in Africa

  Stroud & Chimbutane

  2026

  Many thinkers on the cusp of African independences, wrestling with the question of how to ensure participatory and agentive fellowships for new, postcolonial beginnings, found themselves engaging with language. Franz Fanon, Ngugi wa Thiong’o and …

  Key words: agency, decoloniality, inequity, Linguistic Citizenship, voice

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• WP344 Changing conceptions of literacies, language & development: Implications for the provision of adult basic education in South Africa

  Kerfoot

  2025

  This text is the introduction to a thesis by publication which was published in 2009. The thesis prefigures several contemporary debates in multilingual language and literacy education, notably southern and decolonial approaches which advocate …

  Key words: adult basic education, adult literacy, agency, citizenship, critical applied linguistics, development, multilingualism, reflexivity, resemiotisation, voice

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• WP309 Language policy 4.0

  Kelly-Holmes

  2023

  Media in general, and, in particular new media that are the product of digital technology, have not been a key domain of study in language policy and language planning. However, such media have increasingly become central sites of everyday linguistic …

  Key words: agency, language policy, technology, Web 4.0

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• WP91 Enregisterment, agency & language shift: Kazakh as baby talk

  Smagulova

  2012

  The paper examines how babies in urban Kazakh families are socialized into being Russian-speaking through an analysis of code-switching in baby-directed talk. Drawing on work on registers and footing, I show that Kazakh is systematically enregistered …

  Key words: agency, baby talk, code-switching, Kazakh, Kazakhstan, language shift, language socialization, register, Russian

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