Language In Africa

Author : Leketi Makalela,Goodith White
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2021-06-23
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781800412323

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Rethinking Language Use in Digital Africa by Leketi Makalela,Goodith White Pdf

This book challenges the view that digital communication in Africa is limited and relatively unsophisticated and questions the assumption that digital communication has a damaging effect on indigenous African languages. The book applies the principles of Digital African Multilingualism (DAM) in which there are no rigid boundaries between languages. The book charts a way forward for African languages where greater attention is paid to what speakers do with the languages rather than what the languages look like, and offers several models for language policy and planning based on horizontal and user-based multilingualism. The chapters demonstrate how digital communication is being used to form and sustain communication in many kinds of online groups, including for political activism and creating poetry, and offer a paradigm of language merging online that provides a practical blueprint for the decolonization of African languages through digital platforms.

Author : Edgar Gregersen,Edgar A. Gregersen
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : African languages
ISBN : 0677043805

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Language in Africa by Edgar Gregersen,Edgar A. Gregersen Pdf

This book developed out of a survey course on African languages that Uriel Weinreich invited the author to teach at Columbia University. The focus of the course changed considerably in the years that the author taught the course (1964-1968), in large part to accommodate the interests of many students without a background in linguistics but registered for the course. The one thing African languages have in common, setting them off from all the other languages in the world, is the fact that they are spoken in Africa.

Author : George Tucker Childs
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027226067

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An Introduction to African Languages by George Tucker Childs Pdf

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 : Ian Maddieson,Thomas J. Hinnebusch
Publisher : Africa World Press
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0865436320

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Language History and Linguistic Description in Africa by Ian Maddieson,Thomas J. Hinnebusch Pdf

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.

Author : Rajend Mesthrie
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 526 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2002-10-17
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0521791057

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Language in South Africa by Rajend Mesthrie Pdf

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.

Author : Ayọ Bamgboṣe
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 3825847756

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Language and Exclusion by Ayọ Bamgboṣe Pdf

Language is a critical factor in nation-building, and in a continent such as Africa, where language groups do not necessarily correspond with national boundaries, it is potentially contentious as well. Ayo Bamgbose's new book focuses on the problem of language exclusion, whereby certain languages -- and groups -- are omitted from language policies, particularly in countries in Sub-Saharan Africa. Originally based on a series of lectures given in South Africa, the individual chapters largely preserve the original style of presentation. Consequently, the book is readable, and a valuable introduction to some of the more important issues in African sociolinguistics. The book makes special reference to the language situation in post-apartheid South Africa. The appendices provide access to some of the most important documents on language policies such as the Organization of African Unity's Language Plan of Action For Africa (1986), the language provisions in the Constitution of the Federal Republic of South Africa (1996), and the Barcelona Universal Declaration on Linguistics Rights.

Author : Alice Werner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1925
Category : Africa
ISBN : UOM:39015019984056

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The Language-families of Africa by Alice Werner Pdf

Author : Fiona Mc Laughlin
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2009-08-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781847061164

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The Languages of Urban Africa by Fiona Mc Laughlin Pdf

A rich series of geographically diverse case studies examining the historical and theoretical issues involved in the study of urban African languages.

Author : Bernd Heine,Derek Nurse
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2000-08-03
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0521666295

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African Languages by Bernd Heine,Derek Nurse Pdf

This book is an introduction to African languages and linguistics, covering typology, structure and sociolinguistics. The twelve chapters are written by a team of fifteen eminent Africanists, and their topics include the four major language groupings (Niger-Congo, Nilo-Saharan, Afroasiatic and Khoisan), the core areas of modern theoretical linguistics (phonology, morphology, syntax), typology, sociolinguistics, comparative linguistics, and language, history and society. Basic concepts and terminology are explained for undergraduates and non-specialist readers, but each chapter also provides an overview of the state of the art in its field, and as such will be referred to also by more advanced students and general linguists. The book brings this range of material together in accessible form for anyone wishing to learn more about this challenging and fascinating field.

Author : Ericka A. Albaugh,Kathryn Michelle De Luna
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780190657543

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Tracing Language Movement in Africa by Ericka A. Albaugh,Kathryn Michelle De Luna Pdf

Many disciplines study language movement and change in Africa, but they rarely interact. Here, eighteen scholars from a range of disciplines explore differing conceptions of language movement in Africa through empirical case studies.

Author : Ayọ Bamgboṣe
Publisher : International African Institute
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : UCSC:32106010387931

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Language and the Nation by Ayọ Bamgboṣe Pdf

Focusing on the problem of multilingualism in relation to national integration, communication, development and education in Eastern Africa, this study examines the processes of policy formulation. It discusses different types of language policies and practices in the context of the role of national and international agencies of language planning. Although the focus of the book is sub-Saharan Africa, comparisons with other parts of the world are made whenever necessary.

Author : M. A. Bryan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2017-09-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781351599672

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The Bantu Languages of Africa by M. A. Bryan Pdf

The area covered by this book, originally published in 1953, is one that has long been recognized as presenting many problems from the point of view of Bantu linguistic studies. Almost all the material set out in this present work is based on notes taken in the field, and in many cases presented completely new facts. The sources of the information used are listed at the end of the linguistic description of each of the groups of languages dealt with. Since there are so many languages to be covered it would be impracticable to give even an outline of the main features of each of them, so an outline is given of the main characteristics of each separate group. One language is used as the type for each group, for the purpose of listing examples of the nominal prefixes, verbal conjugation, and personal prefixes. Other features are illustrated from whichever language is the most suitable.

Author : Elizabeth C. Zsiga,One Tlale Boyer,Ruth Kramer
Publisher : Georgetown University Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781626161528

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Languages in Africa by Elizabeth C. Zsiga,One Tlale Boyer,Ruth Kramer Pdf

People in many African communities live within a series of concentric circles when it comes to language. In a small group, a speaker uses an often unwritten and endangered mother tongue that is rarely used in school. A national indigenous language—written, widespread, sometimes used in school—surrounds it. An international language like French or English, a vestige of colonialism, carries prestige, is used in higher education, and promises mobility—and yet it will not be well known by its users. The essays in Languages in Africa explore the layers of African multilingualism as they affect language policy and education. Through case studies ranging across the continent, the contributors consider multilingualism in the classroom as well as in domains ranging from music and film to politics and figurative language. The contributors report on the widespread devaluing and even death of indigenous languages. They also investigate how poor teacher training leads to language-related failures in education. At the same time, they demonstrate that education in a mother tongue can work, linguists can use their expertise to provoke changes in language policies, and linguistic creativity thrives in these multilingual communities.

Author : Birgit Brock-Utne,Ingse Skattum
Publisher : Symposium Books Ltd
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2009-05-11
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781873927175

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Languages and Education in Africa by Birgit Brock-Utne,Ingse Skattum Pdf

The theme of this book cuts across disciplines. Contributors to this volume are specialized in education and especially classroom research as well as in linguistics, most being transdisciplinary themselves. Around 65 sub-Saharan languages figure in this volume as research objects: as means of instruction, in connection with teacher training, language policy, lexical development, harmonization efforts, information technology, oral literature and deaf communities. The co-existence of these African languages with English, French and Arabic is examined as well. This wide range of languages and subjects builds on recent field work, giving new empirical evidence from 17 countries: Botswana, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mozambique, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe, as well as to transnational matters like the harmonization of African transborder languages. As the Editors – a Norwegian social scientist and a Norwegian linguist, both working in Africa – have wanted to give room for African voices, the majority of contributions to this volume come from Africa.

Author : James Essegbey,Brent Henderson,Fiona Mc Laughlin
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2015-10-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027268150

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Language Documentation and Endangerment in Africa by James Essegbey,Brent Henderson,Fiona Mc Laughlin Pdf

This volume brings together a number of important perspectives on language documentation and endangerment in Africa from an international cohort of scholars with vast experience in the field. Offering insights from rural and urban settings throughout the continent, these essays consider topics that range from the development of a writing system to ideologies of language endangerment, from working with displaced communities to the role of colonial languages in reshaping African repertoires, and from the insights of archeology to the challenges of language documentation as a doctoral project. The authors are concerned with both theoretical and practical aspects of language documentation as they address the ways in which the African context both differs from and resembles contexts of endangerment elsewhere in the world. This volume will be useful to fieldworkers and documentalists who work in Africa and beyond.