Essays On Language Communication And Literature In Africa

Author : Joyce T. Mathangwane,Akin Odebunmi
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 555 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2016-02-08
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781443888516

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Essays on Language, Communication and Literature in Africa by Joyce T. Mathangwane,Akin Odebunmi Pdf

Essays on Language, Communication and Literature in Africa explores language choice questions, together with domain-driven lingua-communicative and literary resources situated within the discourses of law, culture, medicine, visual art, politics, the media, music and literature in Africa. It identifies the distinctive African paraphernalia of these discourses, and foregrounds their real-world and mediated cultural and societal values, and highlights the Western presence through the inclusion of aspects of Shakespearean perspectives which bear universal tidings and speak to the African gender tradition. The chapters’ attention to verbal and visual artistic communicative mechanisms underlines such engagements as multilingualism policies, socio-political declension, social dynamism and cultural interventions that characterise the African setting. These realities are discussed in impressive detail, authoritative scholastic depth and effective stylistic tones that reflect the authors’ familiarity with the facets of African societies deducible from language, communication and literature.

Author : Samuel O. Asein,Festus Agboola Adesanoye
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Africa
ISBN : STANFORD:36105020312463

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Language and Polity by Samuel O. Asein,Festus Agboola Adesanoye Pdf

Author : Vincent A. Tanda,Henry Kah Jick,Pius Ngwa Tamanji
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : African languages
ISBN : LCCN:96214509

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Language, Literature, and Social Discourse in Africa by Vincent A. Tanda,Henry Kah Jick,Pius Ngwa Tamanji Pdf

Author : Evelyn Naudorf
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 17 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2003-05-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783638191159

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Examine the representation of the relationship between language and power inSouth African Literature by Evelyn Naudorf Pdf

Essay from the year 2001 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: B, University of London (Faculty of English Literature), course: Literature in History: Race and Subjectivity in South African Writing, language: English, abstract: ‘The choice of language and the use to which language is put is central to a people’s definition of themselves in relation to their natural and social environment, indeed in relation to the entire universe.’1 This quote by the Kenyan writer Ngugi expresses the exceedingly important relationship between language and the individual in general. This relationship is gaining even more importance for a continent such as Africa, in which large parts of the native population were oppressed by European colonial powers for centuries. One important instrument of oppression was definitely language and the feeling of European superiority resulting out of cultural traditions, such as literature. In South Africa, where two major colonial powers were fighting for supremacy and many different native ethnic groups were combined in one state, the question of language would almost naturally provoke conflicts and crisis. In this essay, I should like to have a closer look at this delicate relationship between language and power in South African literature with the example of a Black and a White African writer, Sol T. Plaatje and Nadine Gordimer. In his historical overview, Leonard Thompson already describes the South Africa of the 18th century as a ‘linguistic Babel’2. Afrikaans, a simplified form of Dutch and at first only used in oral communication, would gradually develop into the lingua franca of South Africa. Today, its greatest competitor among European languages is English and both languages, together with nine African languages, belong to the eleven official languages of the postapartheid South African State. The right of every South African to use the language of his or her choice is now embedded in the constitution. However, the situation of having eleven official languages is truly unique world-wide. One of the most pressing question is whether there is a necessity to agree on a single language as the official one, with the other ten languages receiving an equally high status, in order to support the current process of nation-building? If so, should it be English, Afrikaans or one of the African languages? [...] 1 Ngugi wa Thiong’o. Decolonising the Mind, page 4

Author : Tomasz Kamusella,Finex Ndhlovu
Publisher : Springer
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2017-11-21
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781137015938

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The Social and Political History of Southern Africa's Languages by Tomasz Kamusella,Finex Ndhlovu Pdf

This book is the first to offer an interdisciplinary and comprehensive reference work on the often-marginalised languages of southern Africa. The authors analyse a range of different concepts and questions, including language and sociality, social and political history, multilingual government, and educational policies. In doing so, they present significant original research, ensuring that the work will remain a key reference point for the subject. This ambitious and wide-ranging edited collection will appeal to students and scholars of southern African languages, sociolinguistics, history and politics.

Author : D. L. Goyvaerts
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 519 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1985-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027223227

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African Linguistics by D. L. Goyvaerts Pdf

This volume presents papers on issues in African linguistics, covering a variety of African languages and ranging from phonology to lexicology.

Author : Niyi Osunbade,Foluke Unuabonah,Ayo Osisanwo,Akin Adetunji,Funke Oni
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2021-07-27
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781527573017

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Pragmatics, Discourse and Society, Volume 1 by Niyi Osunbade,Foluke Unuabonah,Ayo Osisanwo,Akin Adetunji,Funke Oni Pdf

This two-volume work speaks to the entire scope of Professor Odebunmi’s research concerns in general pragmatics, medical and clinical pragmatics, literary discourse, critical discourse analysis, applied linguistics and language sociology. Its 52 chapters across both volumes (24 chapters in this volume and 28 chapters in Volume 2) written by established scholars such as Jacob Mey, Paul Hopper, Joyce Mathangwane, and Ming-Yu Tseng, in addition to the honoree, explore the dynamics of the interplay of spatial, temporal, agential and (non-)institutional factors that drive discourse/textual constructions, negotiations and interpretations and sometimes influence human cognition and actions. The volume will appeal to all academics, researchers and students who are interested in the interface of context and meaning in human communication.

Author : B. W. Andrzejewski,R. J. Hayward,I. M. Lewis
Publisher : RoutledgeCurzon
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0728602571

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Voice and Power by B. W. Andrzejewski,R. J. Hayward,I. M. Lewis Pdf

This text is devoted to studies of the languages and cultures of the Cushitic-speaking peoples of the Horn of Africa. It is concerned with linguistics in a technical sense, and analyzes the oral literature of the people of the area.

Author : African Literature Association. Meeting
Publisher : Africa World Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Africa
ISBN : 0865439966

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Tongue and Mother Tongue by African Literature Association. Meeting Pdf

Tongue and Mother Tongue takes on two compelling challenges: the language question and the place and role of the mother tongue in African literature. This collection is the culmination of the fierce, decades-old debate on the question of African literature and its criticism. The fourteen essays range from a variety of critical and theoretical perspectives, covering the theoretical and ideological aspects of the language question, the nature of criticism, the influence of the oral tradition, critical analysis of mother tongue literature and textual analyses.

Author : Ismail Ibrahim Ibrahim
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 11 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2021-04-22
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9783346393852

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Language as an Anti-Colonial Tool. A Conceptual Peep into Chinua Achebe's "English and the African Writer" and Ngugi Wa Thiogo's "The Language of African Literature" by Ismail Ibrahim Ibrahim Pdf

Essay from the year 2020 in the subject Literature - Africa, grade: A, , language: English, abstract: This essay deals with language as an Anti-Colonial tool in Chinua Achebe's "English and the African Writer" and Ngugi Wa Thiogo‘s "The Language of African Literature" The most powerful weapon through which the occident (the coloniser) grabs the orient (the colonised) is the language. Language is not just a means of communication, but also the spirit and a carrier of cultural experience and cosmology of the people. It is an age-long tradition and one of the ways of the expansionists in which they impose their language as well as other cultural elements on the conquered people. However, the nexus between language and identity construction is undeniable.

Author : African Literature Association. Meeting
Publisher : Africa World Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : African literature
ISBN : 0865436347

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Mapping Intersections by African Literature Association. Meeting Pdf

This book takes on the challenge: What roles can and should African literature play in Africa's development? From a variety of critical stances and perspectives, the concepts of "literature" and of "development" are theorized, to include and extend beyond inherited concepts and boundaries in the Humanities and the Social Sciences, and thus, to engage peoples' everyday life experiences. Approaches to the question of Africa's literature and its development range from African feminism or feminist practices, to the economics and politics of public access to knowledge, information and literature, to communication networks and use of African languages in national education policies. Twenty essays constitute the volume's four parts which focus on: -- Diverse conceptualizations of African literature and development -- Critical studies of specific writers' works, linking their artistic development with issues and events of social or political development -- A philosophical consideration of the development's relationship to literature -- Models of activist pedagogy in African literature The structure of this volume is encompassed by two roundtable transcriptions with writers and critics for whom African literature and Africa's development is part of a larger struggle to create new space in which to thrive and envision new life, inside and outside the academy.

Author : Modupe Moyosore Alimi,Mompoloki Mmangaka Bagwasi,Patrick James Ebewo
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2020-11-09
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781527561786

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English Language and Literature by Modupe Moyosore Alimi,Mompoloki Mmangaka Bagwasi,Patrick James Ebewo Pdf

English Language and Literature: Cross Cultural Currents is a collection of essays that interrogate the precarious positions of English and African languages in an era in which English is increasingly becoming the dominant language in Africa while at the same time there is a growing resistance against it. Though many Africans take pride in their own cultural heritage that is expressed by their African languages, they require the economic and social benefits of English. The book presents a language dilemma in which both African languages and English enhance, inhibit, and influence each other. The data used by the authors spans a broad spectrum of sources including: fiction, courts, parliamentary Hansards, House of Chiefs, classrooms, internet, roads and bus ranks. Thus, it is reflective of the most and least educated, the most and least influential Africans. The presentations provide broad insights about African symbols, metaphors, imagery and folklores representing undocumented literature that challenge scientific imperialism and deficit theories. The diversity and freshness of the ideas in the book stem from the unique blend of the background of the contributors: English language and literature teachers, teachers of African languages, educationalists, sociologists, historians and politicians. Thus the book is a valuable asset to scholars in linguistics, anthropology and language policy makers.

Author : Christopher R. Green,Samson Lotven
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2024-05-17
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783985540983

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The Ghanaian linguistics nexus by Christopher R. Green,Samson Lotven Pdf

There is a long and rich tradition of excellence in Ghanaian linguistics and the detailed study of Ghanaian languages. This tradition has expanded by leaps and bounds in recent years, thanks in part to a cadre of renowned and highly productive Ghanaian linguists conducting research at universities around the globe, as well as in Ghana itself. So too has the commitment to careful description, documentation, and theorizing underlying this tradition been extended to the students that these scholars have trained. The papers in this volume reflect the vast reach of this research tradition, grounded in but expanding beyond Ghanaian languages, ranging from experimental phonetics, to language description, to political discourse analysis.

Author : Chinua Achebe
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1994-09-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780385474542

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Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe Pdf

“A true classic of world literature . . . A masterpiece that has inspired generations of writers in Nigeria, across Africa, and around the world.” —Barack Obama “African literature is incomplete and unthinkable without the works of Chinua Achebe.” —Toni Morrison Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read Things Fall Apart is the first of three novels in Chinua Achebe's critically acclaimed African Trilogy. It is a classic narrative about Africa's cataclysmic encounter with Europe as it establishes a colonial presence on the continent. Told through the fictional experiences of Okonkwo, a wealthy and fearless Igbo warrior of Umuofia in the late 1800s, Things Fall Apart explores one man's futile resistance to the devaluing of his Igbo traditions by British political andreligious forces and his despair as his community capitulates to the powerful new order. With more than 20 million copies sold and translated into fifty-seven languages, Things Fall Apart provides one of the most illuminating and permanent monuments to African experience. Achebe does not only capture life in a pre-colonial African village, he conveys the tragedy of the loss of that world while broadening our understanding of our contemporary realities.

Author : Christian Mair
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 522 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 9042008768

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The Politics of English as a World Language by Christian Mair Pdf

The complex politics of English as a world language provides the backdrop both for linguistic studies of varieties of English around the world and for postcolonial literary criticism. The present volume offers contributions from linguists and literary scholars that explore this common ground in a spirit of open interdisciplinary dialogue. Leading authorities assess the state of the art to suggest directions for further research, with substantial case studies ranging over a wide variety of topics - from the legitimacy of language norms of lingua franca communication to the recognition of newer post-colonial varieties of English in the online OED. Four regional sections treat the Caribbean (including the diaspora), Africa, the Indian subcontinent, and Australasia and the Pacific Rim. Each section maintains a careful balance between linguistics and literature, and external and indigenous perspectives on issues. The book is the most balanced, complete and up-to-date treatment of the topic to date.