Concepts of Urban Language in Africa
Author : K. É Thomanek
Publisher :
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 49,32 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Code switching (Linguistics)
ISBN :
Author : K. É Thomanek
Publisher :
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 49,32 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Code switching (Linguistics)
ISBN :
Author : Rajend Mesthrie
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 39,71 MB
Release : 2021-09-09
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1107171202
An up-to-date, theoretically informed study of male, in-group, street-aligned, youth language practice in various urban centres in Africa.
Author : Fiona Mc Laughlin
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 22,78 MB
Release : 2009-06-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1441196560
The Languages of Urban Africa consists of a series of case studies that address four main themes. The first is the history of African urban languages. The second set focus on theoretical issues in the study of African urban languages, exploring the outcomes of intense multilingualism and also the ways in which urban dwellers form their speech communities. The volume then moves on to explore the relationship between language and identity in the urban setting. The final two case studies in the volume address the evolution of urban languages in Africa. This rich set of chapters examine languages and speech communities in ten geographically diverse African urban centres, covering almost all regions of the continent. Half involve Francophone cities, the other half, Anglophone. This exciting volume shows us what the study of urban African languages can tell us about language and about African societies in general. It is essential reading for upper level undergraduates, postgraduates and researchers in sociolinguistics, especially those interested in the language of Africa.
Author : Fiona Mc Laughlin
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 45,48 MB
Release : 2011-10-27
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1441158138
The Languages of Urban Africa consists of a series of case studies that address four main themes. The first is the history of African urban languages. The second set focus on theoretical issues in the study of African urban languages, exploring the outcomes of intense multilingualism and also the ways in which urban dwellers form their speech communities. The volume then moves on to explore the relationship between language and identity in the urban setting. The final two case studies in the volume address the evolution of urban languages in Africa. This rich set of chapters examine languages and speech communities in ten geographically diverse African urban centres, covering almost all regions of the continent. Half involve Francophone cities, the other half, Anglophone. This exciting volume shows us what the study of urban African languages can tell us about language and about African societies in general. It is essential reading for upper level undergraduates, postgraduates and researchers in sociolinguistics, especially those interested in the language of Africa.
Author : H. Ekkehard Wolff
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 38,94 MB
Release : 2019-05-16
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781108417983
This book provides an in-depth and comprehensive state-of-the-art study of 'African languages' and 'language in Africa' since its beginnings as a 'colonial science' at the turn of the twentieth century in Europe. Compiled by 56 internationally renowned scholars, this ground breaking study looks at past and current research on 'African languages' and 'language in Africa' under the impact of paradigmatic changes from 'colonial' to 'postcolonial' perspectives. It addresses current trends in the study of the role and functions of language, African and other, in pre- and postcolonial African societies. Highlighting the central role that the 'language factor' plays in postcolonial transformation processes of sociocultural modernization and economic development, it also addresses more recent, particularly urban, patterns of communication, and outlines applied dimensions of digitalization and human language technology.
Author : Augustin Emmanuel Ebongue
Publisher : Springer
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 39,23 MB
Release : 2017-05-11
Category : Education
ISBN : 3319496115
This volume offers a new perspective on sociolinguistics in Africa. Eschewing the traditional approach which looks at the interaction between European and African languages in the wake of colonialism, this book turns its focus to the social dynamics of African languages and African societies. Divided into two sections, the book offers insight into the crucial topics such as: language vitality and endangerment, the birth of ‘new languages’, a sociolinguistics of the city, language contact and language politics. It spans the continent from Algeria to South Africa, Guinea-Bissau to Kenya and addresses the following broad themes: Language variation, contact and changeThe dynamics of urban, rural and youth languagesPolicy and practice This book provides an alternative to the Eurocentric view of sociolinguistic dynamics in Africa, and will make an ideal read or supplemental textbook for scholars and students in the field/disciplines of African languages and linguistics, and those interested in southern theory or ‘sociolinguistics in the margins’.
Author : H. Ekkehard Wolff
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 27,94 MB
Release : 2019-06-13
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 1108417973
The first global history of African linguistics as an emerging autonomous academic discipline, covering Africa, the Americas, Asia, Australia, and Europe.
Author : Ofelia García
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 585 pages
File Size : 44,72 MB
Release : 2017
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0190212896
Contributors explore a range of sociolinguistic topics, including language variation, language ideologies, bi/multilingualism, language policy, linguistic landscapes, and multimodality. Each chapter provides a critical overview of the limitations of modernist positivist perspectives, replacing them with novel, up-to-date ways of theorizing and researching. [Publisher]
Author : Friederike Lüpke
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 42,40 MB
Release : 2013-05-28
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1614511942
Most African languages are spoken by communities as one of several languages present on a daily basis. The persistence of multilingualism and the linguistic creativity manifest in the playful use of different languages are striking, especially against the backdrop of language death and expanding monolingualism elsewhere in the world. The effortless mastery of several languages is disturbing, however, for those who take essentialist perspectives that see it as a problem rather than a resource, and for the dominating, conflictual, sociolinguistic model of multilingualism. This volume investigates African minority languages in the context of changing patterns of multilingualism, and also assesses the status of African languages in terms of existing influential vitality scales. An important aspect of multilingual praxis is the speakers' agency in making choices, their repertoires of registers and the multiplicity of language ideology associated with different ways of speaking. The volume represents a new and original contribution to the ethnography of speaking of multilingual practices and the cultural ideas associated with them.
Author : Ursula Reutner
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 662 pages
File Size : 43,8 MB
Release : 2023-12-18
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 3110626179
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.