Multilingualism

  1. Kiswahili dominates religious signboards in Dar es Salaam
    Study of 97 religious signboards in Dar es Salaam reveals how language choice and visual design structure information access and religious identity in Tanzania's urban worshipscapes.
  2. African multilingualism conflicts with imported language theories
    Decolonising African linguistics: critiquing Global North frameworks, exposing research extraction, and reclaiming multilingual realities distorted by colonial legacies
  3. English remains dominant, with growth in some other languages
    Study analyzing 87.5 million publications reveals English dominance in scholarly communication, with Portuguese and Spanish expanding faster than English while linguistic inequities persist globally.
  4. Neoliberal multilingualism shapes mixed-language online practices
    Examine how Chinese-English code-mixing and translingual practices on social media reflect neoliberal multilingualism, gender, race, and regional positioning while revealing tensions between.