Vol. 31 No. 1 (2022): Nordic Journal of African Studies
Special Section on African Multilingualisms

Introduction to Special Section: Africanist Small-scale Multilingualism Research from a Papuanist Perspective

Eri Kashima
University of Helsinki

Published 2022-03-31

Keywords

  • small-scale multilingualism,
  • linguistic anthropology

How to Cite

Kashima, E. (2022). Introduction to Special Section: Africanist Small-scale Multilingualism Research from a Papuanist Perspective. Nordic Journal of African Studies, 31(1), 1–8. https://doi.org/10.53228/njas.v31i1.864

Abstract

This introduction to the special section on African multilingualism introduces and contextualises three contributing articles into the recently growing research area of small-scale multilingualism. This article does so by briefly characterising the contribution of Africanist work from the author’s perspective as a Papuanist, and contends that the articles in the special section exhibit features in line with Africanist small-scale multilingualism research.