Soweto Zulu Slang
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Soweto Zulu Slang
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Author : Mmemezi Joseph Heracles Mfusi
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1990
Soweto Zulu Slang written by Mmemezi Joseph Heracles Mfusi and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990 with Zulu language categories.
Social Lives In Language Sociolinguistics And Multilingual Speech Communities
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Author : Miriam Meyerhoff
language : en
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Release Date : 2008-09-26
Social Lives In Language Sociolinguistics And Multilingual Speech Communities written by Miriam Meyerhoff 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 2008-09-26 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
This volume offers a synthetic approach to language variation and language ideologies in multilingual communities. Although the vast majority of the world’s speech communities are multilingual, much of sociolinguistics ignores this internal diversity. This volume fills this gap, investigating social and linguistic dimensions of variation and change in multilingual communities. Drawing on research in a wide range of countries (Canada, USA, South Africa, Australia, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu), it explores: connections between the fields of creolistics, language/dialect contact, and language acquisition; how the study of variation and change, particularly in cases of additive bilingualism, is central to understanding social and linguistic issues in multilingual communities; how changing language ideologies and changing demographics influence language choice and/or language policy, and the pivotal place of multilingualism in enacting social power and authority, and a rich array of new empirical findings on the dynamics of multilingual speech communities.
The Structure And Status Of Pidgins And Creoles
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Author : Arthur K. Spears
language : en
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Release Date : 1997-10-06
The Structure And Status Of Pidgins And Creoles written by Arthur K. Spears 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 1997-10-06 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Destined to become a landmark work, this book is devoted principally to a reassessment of the content, categories, boundaries, and basic assumptions of pidgin and creole studies. It includes revised and elaborated papers from meetings of the Society for Pidgin and Creole Linguistics in addition to commissioned papers from leading scholars in the field. As a group, the papers undertake this reassessment through a reevaluation of pidgin/creole terminology and contact language typology (Section One); a requestioning of process and evolution in pidginization, creolization, and other language contact phenomena (Section Two); a reinterpretation of the sources and genesis of grammatical aspects of Saramaccan and Atlantic creoles in general (Section Three); a reconsideration of the status of languages defying received definitions of pidgins and creoles (Section Four); and analyses of aspects of grammar that shed light on the issue of what a possible creole grammar is (Section Five).
Youth Language Practices And Urban Language Contact In Africa
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Author : Rajend Mesthrie
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2021-09-09
Youth Language Practices And Urban Language Contact In Africa written by Rajend Mesthrie 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 2021-09-09 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
An up-to-date, theoretically informed study of male, in-group, street-aligned, youth language practice in various urban centres in Africa.
Language In South Africa
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Author : Rajend Mesthrie
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2002-10-17
Language In South Africa written by Rajend Mesthrie 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 2002-10-17 with Foreign Language Study categories.
A wide-ranging guide to language and society in South Africa. The book surveys the most important language groupings in the region in terms of wider socio-historical processes; contact between the different language varieties; language and public policy issues associated with post-apartheid society and its eleven official languages.
An Introduction To African Languages
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Author : G. Tucker Childs
language : en
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Release Date : 2003-12-19
An Introduction To African Languages written by G. 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 2003-12-19 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.
Soweto Blues
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Author : Gwen Ansell
language : en
Publisher: A&C Black
Release Date : 2005-09-28
Soweto Blues written by Gwen Ansell and has been published by A&C Black this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-09-28 with Music categories.
Tells the remarkable story of how jazz became a key part of South Africa's struggle in the 20th century, and provides a fascinating overview of the ongoing links between African and American styles of music. Ansell illustrates how jazz occupies a unique place in South African music.Through interviews with hundreds of musicians, she pieces together a vibrant narrative history, bringing to life the early politics of resistance, the atmosphere of illegal performance spaces, the global anti-apartheid influence of Hugh Masakela and Miriam Makeba, as well as the post-apartheid upheavals in the national broadcasting and recording industries.
Ideophones
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Author : Erhard Friedrich Karl Voeltz
language : en
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Release Date : 2001-01-01
Ideophones written by Erhard Friedrich Karl Voeltz 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 2001-01-01 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
The present volume represents a selection of papers presented at the International Symposium on Ideophones held in January 1999 in St. Augustin, Germany. They center around the following hypotheses: Ideophones are universal; and constitute a grammatical category in all languages of the world; ideophones and similar words have a special dramaturgic function that differs from all other word classes: they simulate an event, an emotion, a perception through language. In addition to this unique function, a good number of formal parallels can be observed. The languages dealt with here display strikingly similar patterns of derivational processes involving ideophones. An equally widespread common feature is the introduction of ideophones via a verbum dicendi or complementizer. Another observation concerns the sound-symbolic behavior of ideophones. Thus the word formation of ideophones differs from other words in their tendency for iconicity and sound-symbolism. Finally it is made clear that ideophones are part of spoken language the language register, where gestures are used rather than written language.
Language And Social History
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Author : Rajend Mesthrie
language : en
Publisher: New Africa Books
Release Date : 1995
Language And Social History written by Rajend Mesthrie and has been published by New Africa Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with Sociolinguistics categories.
Standard And Non Standard African Language Varieties In The Urban Areas Of South Africa
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Author : Karen Calteaux
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1996
Standard And Non Standard African Language Varieties In The Urban Areas Of South Africa written by Karen Calteaux and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
This report provides data on standard and non-standard African language varieties occurring in urban areas of South Africa, drawn from nine smaller reports. It illustrates the language use patterns in black urban communities and describes the language varieties spoken in them. It was found that the impact of non-standard varieties on the use of standard African languages is reflected clearly in their grammatical systems. Main sources of influence are the European languages of daily contact. Grammatical adaptation of the standard African languages, in the form of lexical adoption from foreign languages, is a major focus of the report. Implications of the study's results for African language planning and for education are discussed. Chapters address these topics: research origins, background, and methodology; theoretical bases in research on sociolinguistics, multilingualism, language change, linguistic borrowing, language variation, and language use within a speech community; language use patterns in black urban communities, both general and specific; the nature of phonological change; the nature of morphological change; syntactic change; semantic shift; language interference in the schools; language planning in this context; and implications for South African education policy and practice. Contains 124 references. (MSE)