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Socio-spatial networks, multilingualism, and language use in a rural African context

  • SUNY Buffalo

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Abstract

A GIS spatial perspective can provide important insights into many poorly understood sociolinguistic phenomena such as multilingualism in rural Africa. By relying on ethnographic and individual-based sociolinguistic information as well as on high spatial-temporal resolution data, our interdisciplinary team composed of linguists and geographers aims to (i) make original contributions to the cartographic representation of multilingualism and (ii) develop spatial-analytical models able to capture a complex array of linguistic, cultural, and spatial variables for a compact rural area of Cameroon.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationLecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography
EditorsPaolo Fogliaroni, Andrea Ballatore, Eliseo Clementini
PublisherSpringer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Pages35-39
Number of pages5
ISBN (Electronic)9783319639468
ISBN (Print)9783319005140, 9783319009926, 9783319036434, 9783319081793, 9783319337821, 9783319615141, 9783319639451, 9783319639451, 9783319714691, 9783540342373, 9783540685678, 9783540713173, 9783540777991, 9783540873921, 9783540882435, 9783642032936, 9783642034411, 9783642047909, 9783642105944, 9783642122712, 9783642155369, 9783642224409, 9783642241970, 9783642297694, 9783642318320, 9783642327131, 9783642332173, 9783642343582, 9783642363788, 9783642375323
DOIs
StatePublished - 2018
Event13th International Conference on Spatial Information Theory, COSIT 2017 - L'Aquila, Italy
Duration: Sep 4 2017Sep 8 2017

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography
Volume0
ISSN (Print)1863-2246
ISSN (Electronic)1863-2351

Conference

Conference13th International Conference on Spatial Information Theory, COSIT 2017
Country/TerritoryItaly
CityL'Aquila
Period09/4/1709/8/17

Keywords

  • Ethnographic GIS
  • Language & space
  • Multilingualism
  • Rural Africa

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