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Author | : Ursula Reutner |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 880 |
Release | : 2023-12-18 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 3110628864 |
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With more than two thousand languages spread over its territory, multilingualism is a common reality in Africa. The main official languages of most African countries are Indo-European, in many instances Romance. As they were primarily brought to Africa in the era of colonization, the areas discussed in this volume are thirty-five states that were once ruled by Belgium, France, Italy, Portugal, or Spain, and the African regions still belonging to three of them. Twenty-six states are presented in relation to French, four to Italian, six to Portuguese, and two to Spanish. They are considered in separate chapters according to their sociolinguistic situation, linguistic history, external language policy, linguistic characteristics, and internal language policy. The result is a comprehensive overview of the Romance languages in modern-day Africa. It follows a coherent structure, offers linguistic and sociolinguistic information, and illustrates language contact situations, power relations, as well as the cross-fertilization and mutual enrichment emerging from the interplay of languages and cultures in Africa.
Author | : Ursula Reutner |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 662 |
Release | : 2023-12-18 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 3110626179 |
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With more than two thousand languages spread over its territory, multilingualism is a common reality in Africa. The main official languages of most African countries are Indo-European, in many instances Romance. As they were primarily brought to Africa in the era of colonization, the areas discussed in this volume are thirty-five states that were once ruled by Belgium, France, Italy, Portugal, or Spain, and the African regions still belonging to three of them. Twenty-six states are presented in relation to French, four to Italian, six to Portuguese, and two to Spanish. They are considered in separate chapters according to their sociolinguistic situation, linguistic history, external language policy, linguistic characteristics, and internal language policy. The result is a comprehensive overview of the Romance languages in modern-day Africa. It follows a coherent structure, offers linguistic and sociolinguistic information, and illustrates language contact situations, power relations, as well as the cross-fertilization and mutual enrichment emerging from the interplay of languages and cultures in Africa.
Author | : Kristina Bedijs |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 544 |
Release | : 2017-09-25 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 3110314754 |
Download Manual of Romance Languages in the Media Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This manual provides an extensive overview of the importance and use of Romance languages in the media, both in a diachronic and synchronic perspective. Its chapters discuss language in television and the new media, the language of advertising, or special cases such as translation platforms or subtitling. Separate chapters are dedicated to minority languages and smaller varieties such as Galician and Picard, and to methodological approaches such as linguistic discourse analysis and writing process research.
Author | : Konstanze Jungbluth |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 788 |
Release | : 2015-10-16 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 3110317737 |
Download Manual of Deixis in Romance Languages Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Deixis as a field of research has generated increased interest in recent years. It is crucial for a number of different subdisciplines: pragmatics, semantics, cognitive and contrastive linguistics, to name just a few. The subject is of particular interest to experts and students, philosophers, teachers, philologists, and psychologists interested in the study of their language or in comparing linguistic structures. The different deictic structures – not only the items themselves, but also the oppositions between them – reflect the fact that neither the notions of space, time, person nor our use of them are identical cross-culturally. This diversity is not restricted to the difference between languages, but also appears among related dialects and language varieties. This volume will provide an overview of the field, focusing on Romance languages, but also reaching beyond this perspective. Chapters on diachronic developments (language change), comparisons with other (non-)European languages, and on interfaces with neighboring fields of interest are also included. The editors and authors hope that readers, regardless of their familiarity with Romance languages, will gain new insights into deixis in general, and into the similarities and differences among deictic structures used in the languages of the world.
Author | : Christiane Fäcke |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 650 |
Release | : 2014-08-25 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 311030225X |
Download Manual of Language Acquisition Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This manual contains overviews on language acquisition and distinguishes between first- and second-language acquisition. It also deals with Romance languages as foreign languages in the world and with language acquisition in some countries of the Romance-speaking world. This reference work will be helpful for researchers, students, and teachers interested in language acquisition in general and in Romance languages in particular.
Author | : Franz Lebsanft |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 651 |
Release | : 2020-01-20 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 3110456060 |
Download Manual of Standardization in the Romance Languages Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Language standardization is an ongoing process based on the notions of linguistic correctness and models. This manual contains thirty-six chapters that deal with the theories of linguistic norms and give a comprehensive up-to-date description and analysis of the standardization processes in the Romance languages. The first section presents the essential approaches to the concept of linguistic norm ranging from antiquity to the present, and includes individual chapters on the notion of linguistic norms and correctness in classical grammar and rhetoric, in the Prague School, in the linguistic theory of Eugenio Coseriu, in sociolinguistics as well as in pragmatics, cognitive and discourse linguistics. The second section focuses on the application of these notions with respect to the Romance languages. It examines in detail the normative grammar and the normative dictionary as the reference tools for language codification and modernization of those languages that have a long and well-established written tradition, i.e. Romanian, Italian, French, Catalan, Spanish, and Portuguese. Furthermore, the volume offers a discussion of the key issues regarding the standardization of the ‘minor’ Romance languages as well as Creoles.
Author | : Martin Maiden |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 649 |
Release | : 2013-10-24 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : 1316025551 |
Download The Cambridge History of the Romance Languages: Volume 2, Contexts Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
What is the origin of the Romance languages and how did they evolve? When and how did they become different from Latin, and from each other? Volume 2 of The Cambridge History of the Romance Languages offers fresh and original reflections on the principal questions and issues in the comparative external histories of the Romance languages. It is organised around the two key themes of influences and institutions, exploring the fundamental influence, of contact with and borrowing from, other languages (including Latin), and the cultural and institutional forces at work in the establishment of standard languages and norms of correctness. A perfect complement to the first volume, it offers an external history of the Romance languages combining data and theory to produce new and revealing perspectives on the shaping of the Romance languages.
Author | : M. A. Bryan |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 180 |
Release | : 2019-10-07 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781138097919 |
Download The Bantu Languages of Africa Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The area covered by this book, originally published in 1953, is one that has long been recognized as presenting many problems from the point of view of Bantu linguistic studies. Almost all the material set out in this present work is based on notes taken in the field, and in many cases presented completely new facts. The sources of the information used are listed at the end of the linguistic description of each of the groups of languages dealt with. Since there are so many languages to be covered it would be impracticable to give even an outline of the main features of each of them, so an outline is given of the main characteristics of each separate group. One language is used as the type for each group, for the purpose of listing examples of the nominal prefixes, verbal conjugation, and personal prefixes. Other features are illustrated from whichever language is the most suitable.
Author | : A Werner |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 152 |
Release | : 2018-08-10 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 0429868340 |
Download The Language Families Of Africa Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Published in 1925, this introduction provides an accessible account of language families in Africa. Covering the five families of African languages: the Sudan family, the Bantu family, the Hamitic family, the Bushman family and the Semitic family, it provides a detailed study of the languages, phonetics and linguistic content. The book will be of use to anyone interested in the history and development of human speech.
Author | : Diedrich Westermann |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 300 |
Release | : 1970 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : |
Download The Languages of West Africa Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle