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Author | : Leketi Makalela |
Publisher | : Multilingual Matters |
Total Pages | : 186 |
Release | : 2021-06-23 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1800412320 |
Download Rethinking Language Use in Digital Africa Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book challenges the view that digital communication in Africa is limited and relatively unsophisticated and questions the assumption that digital communication has a damaging effect on indigenous African languages. The book applies the principles of Digital African Multilingualism (DAM) in which there are no rigid boundaries between languages. The book charts a way forward for African languages where greater attention is paid to what speakers do with the languages rather than what the languages look like, and offers several models for language policy and planning based on horizontal and user-based multilingualism. The chapters demonstrate how digital communication is being used to form and sustain communication in many kinds of online groups, including for political activism and creating poetry, and offer a paradigm of language merging online that provides a practical blueprint for the decolonization of African languages through digital platforms.
Author | : Alice Werner |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 162 |
Release | : 1915 |
Genre | : Africa |
ISBN | : |
Download The Language-families of Africa Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Edgar Gregersen |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 1977 |
Genre | : African languages |
ISBN | : 9780677043807 |
Download Language in Africa Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book developed out of a survey course on African languages that Uriel Weinreich invited the author to teach at Columbia University. The focus of the course changed considerably in the years that the author taught the course (1964-1968), in large part to accommodate the interests of many students without a background in linguistics but registered for the course. The one thing African languages have in common, setting them off from all the other languages in the world, is the fact that they are spoken in Africa.
Author | : Ekkehard Wolff |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 375 |
Release | : 2016-05-26 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1107088550 |
Download Language and Development in Africa Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This volume explores the central role of language across all aspects of public and private life in Africa.
Author | : George Tucker Childs |
Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 2003-01-01 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9789027226068 |
Download An Introduction to African Languages Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book introduces beginning students and non-specialists to the diversity and richness of African languages. In addition to providing a solid background to the study of African languages, the book presents linguistic phenomena not found in European languages. A goal of this book is to stimulate interest in African languages and address the question: What makes African languages so fascinating? The orientation adopted throughout the book is a descriptive one, which seeks to characterize African languages in a relatively succinct and neutral manner, and to make the facts accessible to a wide variety of readers. The author's lengthy acquaintance with the continent and field experiences in western, eastern, and southern Africa allow for both a broad perspective and considerable depth in selected areas. The original examples are often the author's own but also come from other sources and languages not often referenced in the literature. This text also includes a set of sound files illustrating the phenomena under discussion, be they the clicks of Khoisan, talking drums, or the ideophones (words like English lickety-split) found almost everywhere, which will make this book a valuable resource for teacher and student alike.
Author | : Rajend Mesthrie |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 526 |
Release | : 2002-10-17 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : 9780521791052 |
Download Language in South Africa Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A wide-ranging guide to language and society in South Africa. The book surveys the most important language groupings in the region in terms of wider socio-historical processes; contact between the different language varieties; language and public policy issues associated with post-apartheid society and its eleven official languages.
Author | : Ian Maddieson |
Publisher | : Africa World Press |
Total Pages | : 334 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : 9780865436329 |
Download Language History and Linguistic Description in Africa Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
For more than a quarter of a century the Annual conference on African Linguistics (ACAL) has provided a lively forum for the confrontation of ideas on theoretical linguistics with descriptive data on African languages.
Author | : Cecelia Cutler |
Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing Company |
Total Pages | : 369 |
Release | : 2017-07-12 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9027265445 |
Download Language Contact in Africa and the African Diaspora in the Americas Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Language Contact in Africa and the African Diaspora in the Americas brings together the original research of nineteen leading scholars on language contact and pidgin/creole genesis. In recent decades, increasing attention has been paid to the role of historical, cultural and demographic factors in language contact situations. John Victor Singler’s body of work, a model of what such a research paradigm should look like, strikes a careful balance between sociohistorical and linguistic analysis. The case studies in this volume present investigations into the sociohistorical matrix of language contact and critical insights into the sociolinguistic consequences of language contact within Africa and the African Diaspora. Additionally, they contribute to ongoing debates about pidgin/creole genesis and language contact by examining and comparing analyses and linguistic outcomes of particular sociohistorical and cultural contexts, and considering less-studied factors such as speaker agency and identity in the emergence, nativization, and stabilization of contact varieties.
Author | : William E. Welmers |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 504 |
Release | : 1974-01-01 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9780520022102 |
Download African Language Structures Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Retells the Cheyenne legend in which a girl and her seven chosen brothers become the Big Dipper.
Author | : Bernd Heine |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 412 |
Release | : 2000-08-03 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : 9780521666299 |
Download African Languages Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book is an introduction to African languages and linguistics, covering typology, structure and sociolinguistics. The twelve chapters are written by a team of fifteen eminent Africanists, and their topics include the four major language groupings (Niger-Congo, Nilo-Saharan, Afroasiatic and Khoisan), the core areas of modern theoretical linguistics (phonology, morphology, syntax), typology, sociolinguistics, comparative linguistics, and language, history and society. Basic concepts and terminology are explained for undergraduates and non-specialist readers, but each chapter also provides an overview of the state of the art in its field, and as such will be referred to also by more advanced students and general linguists. The book brings this range of material together in accessible form for anyone wishing to learn more about this challenging and fascinating field.