Author : Alain Ricard
Publisher :
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 18,67 MB
Release : 2004
Category : African languages
ISBN : 9780852555828
Focusing on linguistic consciousness and the place of language in the writer's consciousness, this book provides an original and comprehensive treatment of the African literary situation.
Author : Olanike Ola Orie
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 32,26 MB
Release : 2019-11-26
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 152754401X
The text celebrates the academic achievements of Professor Olasope Oyelaran. It brings together over 20 papers by an international group of scholars on African diaspora languages, literatures and culture, representing four generations, all of whom have been influenced by Oyelaran’s work in one way or another. Edited by three African scholars in the USA, UK, and Nigeria, the volume presents current research on topics in applied- and socio-linguistics, phonology, morphology, syntax, oral and written literature, and Yoruba language and culture in African diasporas in Brazil, Cuba, and Trinidad. The constellation of topics presented here will enlarge the reader’s understanding of a number of issues in the field of African and African diaspora languages, literatures, and cultures today. As such, the book makes an important contribution to the expanding work on the linguistic and cultural interface of Africa and its Brazilian, Cuban, and Trinidadian diasporas.
Author : Kembo-Sure
Publisher :
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 22,32 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780195716818
This book focuses on the languages and linguistics of Africa. Covering the major themes that are dealt with in university courses, and making extensive use of linguistic symbols and diagrams, this is an essential text for undergraduate and postgraduate linguistics students in South Africa and Africa as a whole, as well as for students of African studies worldwide. Its topics include general descriptions of African languages, the nature of languages in contact and in competition, language in education, and the need for governmental intervention in linguistic issues.
Author : Mukoma Wa Ngugi
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 31,97 MB
Release : 2018-03-27
Category : History
ISBN : 047205368X
Engaging questions of language, identity, and reception to restore South African and diaspora writing to the African literary tradition
Author : Leonard Muaka
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 24,64 MB
Release : 2018-12-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1498572286
Language in Contemporary African Cultures and Societies examines language in contemporary Africa by positioning language at the center of interrelationships between individuals, society, and culture. Because of how language permeates every aspect of human existence within each society, this book has assembled contributions by researchers and scholars who focus on different topics within African languages and cultures. By presenting African languages as resources and subject and subject of the study, this book discusses Africa’s multilingualism, language policy, preservation, and their uses in development, security, liberation, and identity formation in the diaspora. Based on empirical research and analysis of texts, this book takes a closer look at the continent and the diaspora by situating African languages, cultures, and literatures at the center, and shows how African languages are used in the liberation, transfer of knowledge, and promotion of literacy among Africans globally. It is a book that seeks to bridge the gap between the continent and the diaspora. All contributors are experienced scholars of language, literature, education and linguistics. The chapters provide a major means for examining the interplay of language, literature, and education.
Author : G. Tucker Childs
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 33,38 MB
Release : 2003-12-19
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027295883
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 : Tom Güldemann
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 1085 pages
File Size : 40,78 MB
Release : 2018-09-10
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 3110421755
This innovative handbook takes a fresh look at the currently underestimated linguistic diversity of Africa, the continent with the largest number of languages in the world. It covers the major domains of linguistics, offering both a representative picture of Africa’s linguistic landscape as well as new and at times unconventional perspectives. The focus is not so much on exhaustiveness as on the fruitful relationship between African and general linguistics and the contributions the two domains can make to each other. This volume is thus intended for readers with a specific interest in African languages and also for students and scholars within the greater discipline of linguistics.
Author : Ngũgĩ wa Thiongʼo
Publisher :
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 30,83 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Africa
ISBN : 9780949225382
Author : B. W. Andrzejewski
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 678 pages
File Size : 13,89 MB
Release : 1985-11-21
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0521256461
Although African literatures in English and French are widely known outside Africa, those in the African languages themselves have not received comparable attention. In this book a number have been selected for survey by fourteen specialist writers, providing the reader with an introduction to this very wide field and a body of reference material which includes extensive bibliographies and biographical information on African authors. Theoretical issues such as genre divisions are discussed in the essays and the historical, social and political forces at work in the creation and reception of African literature are examined. Literature is treated as an art whose medium is language, so that both the oral and written forms are encompassed. This book will be of value not only to readers concerned with the cultures of Africa but to all those with an interest in the literary phenomena of the world in general.
Author : Edmund L. Epstein
Publisher : Africa World Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 47,84 MB
Release : 1998
Category : African literature
ISBN : 9780865435353
In this unprecedented anthology, some of the most prolific and widely read African novelists are analysed.
