Concepts of Urban Language in Africa
Author : K. É Thomanek
Publisher :
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 24,46 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Code switching (Linguistics)
ISBN :
Youth Language Practices and Urban Language Contact in Africa
Author : Rajend Mesthrie
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 30,17 MB
Release : 2021-09-09
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1107171202
Book Description
An up-to-date, theoretically informed study of male, in-group, street-aligned, youth language practice in various urban centres in Africa.
The Languages of Urban Africa
Author : Fiona Mc Laughlin
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 20,56 MB
Release : 2009-06-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1441196560
Book Description
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.
The Languages of Urban Africa
Author : Fiona Mc Laughlin
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 18,72 MB
Release : 2011-10-27
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1441158138
Book Description
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.
The Cambridge Handbook of African Linguistics
Author : H. Ekkehard Wolff
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 25,77 MB
Release : 2019-05-16
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781108417983
Book Description
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.
A History of African Linguistics
Author : H. Ekkehard Wolff
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 27,88 MB
Release : 2019-06-13
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 1108417973
Book Description
The first global history of African linguistics as an emerging autonomous academic discipline, covering Africa, the Americas, Asia, Australia, and Europe.
The Oxford Handbook of Language and Society
Author : Ofelia García
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 585 pages
File Size : 46,24 MB
Release : 2017
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0190212896
Book Description
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]
Repertoires and Choices in African Languages
Author : Friederike Lüpke
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 42,33 MB
Release : 2013-05-28
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1614511942
Book Description
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.
Manual of Romance Languages in Africa
Author : Ursula Reutner
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 662 pages
File Size : 13,22 MB
Release : 2023-12-18
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 3110626179
Book Description
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.
Emerging Perspectives on Translanguaging in Multilingual University Classrooms
Author : Vimbai Mbirimi-Hungwe
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 16,25 MB
Release : 2020-09-16
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1527559645
Book Description
This collection highlights research conducted by academics from the fields of science and English language studies. The contributions gathered here bring out the importance of using a translanguaging approach to teaching subject content. The volume responds to the generally agreed custom among academics that translanguaging should only be used by language teachers and lecturers. The practical descriptions of how translanguaging has been, and can be, used in science and maths classrooms show that translanguaging pedagogy should not be a tool to be used by language lecturers only. The volume shows that there are emerging perspectives with regards to teaching maths and science where translingual pedagogy can be used as a vehicle towards assisting students to understand difficult academic concepts.
