Language endangerment and language documentation in Africa

Abstract: 1. Introduction A. Suresh Canagarajah Part I: Premises 2. Global and Local Communicative Networks and Implications for Literacy Charles Bazerman 3. Translingual Literacy and Matters of Agency Min-Zhan Lu and Bruce Horner 4. Rhetorical Activities of Global Citizens Scott Wible 5. Redefining Indigenous Rhetoric: From Places of Origin to Translingual Spaces of Interdependence-in-Difference LuMing Mao Part II: Community Practices 6. Neither Asian nor American: The Creolization of Asian American Rhetoric Morris Young 7. Confronting the Wounds of Colonialism Through Words Jon Reyhner 8. The Cherokee Syllabary: The Evolution of Writing in Sequoyan Ellen Cushman 9. Hi-ein, Hi iia or iia Hi? Translingual Practices From Lebanon and Mainstream Literacy Education Nancy Bou Ayash 10. Translingual Practices in Kenyan Hiphop: Pedagogical Implications Esther Milu Part III: Code-Meshing Orientations 11. Pedagogical and Socio-Political Implications of Code-Meshing in Classrooms: Some Considerations for a Translingual Orientation to Writing Vivette Milson-Whyte 12. It's the Wild West Out There: A New Linguistic Frontier in U.S. College Composition Paul Kei Matsuda 13. Keep Code-Meshing Vershawn Ashanti Young Part IV: Research Directions 14. Negotiation, Translinguality, and Cross-Cultural Writing Research in a New Composition Era Christiane Donahue 15. Writing Across Languages: Developing Rhetorical Attunement Rebecca Lorimer 16. Research on Multilingual Writers in the Disciplines: The Case of Biomedical Engineering Mya Poe 17. Transnational Translingual Literacy Sponsors and Gateways on the United States-Mexico Borderlands John Scenters-Zapico Part V: Pedagogical Applications 18. Literacy Brokers in the Contact Zone, Year 1: The Crowded Safe House Maria Jerskey 19. Moving Out of the Monolingual Comfort Zone and Into the Multilingual World: An Exercise for the Writing Classroom Joleen Hanson 20. When "Second" Comes First- to the Eye? Sociolinguistic Hybridity in Professional Writing Anita Pandey 21. "And Yea I'm Venting, But Hey I'm Writing Isn't I": A Translingual Approach to Error in a Multilingual Context Aimee Krall-Lanoue 22. Afterword: Reflections From the Ground Floor Dorothy Worden

TL;DR: The authors argue that human linguistic behaviour is marked by fluidity rather than rigid compartmentalisation. But they also argue that language conceptualized as multilinguality is constitutive of being human and may be a potential site for negotiating conflict and exploring paths of harmony in education.