Urban Wolof across Borders

This book takes urban Wolof beyond Senegal to consider the effects of mobility on language and examine how the diasporans engage in their daily language practices as transmigrants. The parallel between languaging and migrating underpins the author's argument, as he examines the dynamicity of languaging at both micro and macro levels, as speakers navigate across spaces and languages. Moving away from a code-based approach, the author makes a compelling case that the urbanite, rather than shuttling between codes, deploys instead idiolectal features from a unique linguistic repertoire which comprises at once semiotic, cognitive, and language features. His indigenous approach affords novel perspectives in linguistic ethnography and complements the Euro-Western methodologies.

Examines urban Wolof from the unitary view of translanguaging, and through the perspective of a Senegalese Wolophone Establishes a correlation between transmigration and translanguaging, considering a more translocal Wolof Analyses semiotic and cognitive repertoires as being part of speakers' resources

Autorentext

Aziz Dieng is a linguistic ethnographer and French teacher. He is a member of the Higher Education Academy.

Inhalt

1 Introduction and con ceptual considerations.- 2 Identity and roles of the Senegalese transmigrant.- 3 Language practices in the dahiras.- 4 Commensality.- 5 Language attitudes and identity construction.- 6 Conclusions: revisiting urban Wolof insights from transmigration and translanguaging.