New Dimensions In African Linguistics And Languages
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New Dimensions In African Linguistics And Languages
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Author : Paul A. Kotey
language : en
Publisher: Africa World Press
Release Date : 1999
New Dimensions In African Linguistics And Languages written by Paul A. Kotey and has been published by Africa World Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Foreign Language Study categories.
Presents the papers delivered during the Plenary Sessions at the 27th Annual Conference on African Linguistics. Contents cover issues relating to phonology, syntax, historical linguistics, and language and society, as well as pedagogical issues that relate to the learning and teaching of African languages.
The Languages And Linguistics Of Africa
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Author : Tom Güldemann
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date : 2018-09-10
The Languages And Linguistics Of Africa written by Tom Güldemann and has been published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-09-10 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
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.
Theoretical Approaches To African Linguistics
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Author : Akinbiyi Akinlabi
language : en
Publisher: Africa World Press
Release Date : 1995
Theoretical Approaches To African Linguistics written by Akinbiyi Akinlabi and has been published by Africa World Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with Foreign Language Study categories.
The first of a new series devoted to the study of African linguistics, this study presents papers on a wide range of disciplines pertinent to the field that will be of interest to students and researchers. This first volume includes work on Niger Congo languages such as Yoruba and Igbo, and several Bantu languages.
Theory And Description In African Linguistics
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Author : Emily Clem
language : en
Publisher: Language Science Press
Release Date : 2019
Theory And Description In African Linguistics written by Emily Clem and has been published by Language Science Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
The papers in this volume were presented at the 47th Annual Conference on African Linguistics at UC Berkeley in 2016. The papers offer new descriptions of African languages and propose novel theoretical analyses of them. The contributions span topics in phonetics, phonology, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics and reflect the typological and genetic diversity of languages in Africa. Four papers in the volume examine Areal Features and Linguistic Reconstruction in Africa, and were presented at a special workshop on this topic held alongside the general session of ACAL.
A History Of African Linguistics
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Author : H. Ekkehard Wolff
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2019-06-13
A History Of African Linguistics written by H. Ekkehard Wolff and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-06-13 with Foreign Language Study categories.
The first global history of African linguistics as an emerging autonomous academic discipline, covering Africa, the Americas, Asia, Australia, and Europe.
An Introduction To African Languages
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Author : George Tucker Childs
language : en
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Release Date : 2003-01-01
An Introduction To African Languages written by George Tucker Childs and has been published by John Benjamins Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-01-01 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
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.
Language History And Linguistic Description In Africa
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Author : Ian Maddieson
language : en
Publisher: Africa World Press
Release Date : 1998
Language History And Linguistic Description In Africa written by Ian Maddieson and has been published by Africa World Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Foreign Language Study categories.
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.
Theory And Description In African Linguistics
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Author : Emily Clem
language : en
Publisher: Saint Philip Street Press
Release Date : 2020-10-09
Theory And Description In African Linguistics written by Emily Clem and has been published by Saint Philip Street Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-10-09 with categories.
The papers in this volume were presented at the 47th Annual Conference on African Linguistics at UC Berkeley in 2016. The papers offer new descriptions of African languages and propose novel theoretical analyses of them. The contributions span topics in phonetics, phonology, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics and reflect the typological and genetic diversity of languages in Africa. Four papers in the volume examine Areal Features and Linguistic Reconstruction in Africa, and were presented at a special workshop on this topic held alongside the general session of ACAL. This work was published by Saint Philip Street Press pursuant to a Creative Commons license permitting commercial use. All rights not granted by the work's license are retained by the author or authors.
Diversity In African Languages
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Author : Doris L. Payne
language : en
Publisher: Language Science Press
Release Date : 2016-12-31
Diversity In African Languages written by Doris L. Payne and has been published by Language Science Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-12-31 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Diversity in African Languages contains a selection of revised papers from the 46th Annual Conference on African Linguistics, held at the University of Oregon. Most chapters focus on single languages, addressing diverse aspects of their phonology, morphology, semantics, syntax, information structure, or historical development. These chapters represent nine different genera: Mande, Gur, Kwa, Edoid, Bantu, Nilotic, Gumuzic, Cushitic, and Omotic. Other chapters investigate a mix of languages and families, moving from typological issues to sociolinguistic and inter-ethnic factors that affect language and accent switching. Some chapters are primarily descriptive, while others push forward the theoretical understanding of tone, semantic problems, discourse related structures, and other linguistic systems. The papers on Bantu languages reflect something of the internal richness and continued fascination of the family for linguists, as well as maturation of research on the family. The distribution of other papers highlights the need for intensified research into all the language families of Africa, including basic documentation, in order to comprehend linguistic diversities and convergences across the continent. In this regard, the chapter on Daats’íin (Gumuzic) stands out as the first-ever published article on this hitherto unknown and endangered language found in the Ethiopian-Sudanese border lands.
Indigenization Of Language In The African Francophone Novel
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Author : Peter W. Vakunta
language : en
Publisher: Peter Lang
Release Date : 2011
Indigenization Of Language In The African Francophone Novel written by Peter W. Vakunta and has been published by Peter Lang this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with African fiction (French) categories.
Indigenization of Language in the African Francophone Novel: A New Literary Canon discusses the question of indigenization in the African Francophone novel. Analyzing the prose narratives of Nazi Boni, Ahmadou Kourouma, and Patrice Nganang, this book contends that African literature written in European languages is primarily a creative translation process. Recourse to European languages as a medium of expressing African imagination, worldview, and cultures in fictional writing poses problems of intelligibility. Developed to express and reflect Western worldviews and sensibilities, European languages are employed by African writers to convey messages that seem to be at variance with European imagination. These writers find themselves writing in languages they wish to subvert through the technique of literary indigenization. The significance of this study resides in its raising awareness to the hurdles that literary creativity in a polyglossic context may present to readers and translators. This book provides answers to intriguing questions centering on the problematic of translation in contemporary African literature. It is a contribution to current research aimed at unraveling the conundrum surrounding the language question in African Europhone fiction, particularly the cultural functions of translation in literature. Potential translation problems have to be addressed in order to make African literature written in European languages intelligible to global readership. With the advent of globalization, transcultural communication has become an activity of enormous importance to the international community. It is a subject of great interest to translators, linguists, language instructors, and literary theorists.