Studies On Indigenous Signed And Spoken Languages In Africa

Author : Emmanuel Asonye,Mary Edward
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
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Release : 2024-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 103640224X

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Studies on Indigenous Signed and Spoken Languages in Africa by Emmanuel Asonye,Mary Edward Pdf

This volume is an important exploration of Africa's rich linguistic diversity. The chapters delve into the complexities of linguistic research, preservation, and cultural understanding, with a regional focus covering indigenous African languages. It honours often-overlooked sign languages, making it a trailblazing work in its combination of signed and spoken languages within the African environment. This book is a must-have for anybody interested in African languages, providing new perspectives on language preservation, cultural identity, and the lasting spirit of linguistic diversity. The individual chapters present an invitation to discover, appreciate, and preserve Africa's indigenous languages. This volume, intended for linguists, policy makers, and graduate and undergraduate students, presents a practical approach to deciphering the complexity of indigenous African languages, both signed and spoken.

Author : Emmanuel Asonye,Mary Edward
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 413 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2024-04-23
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781036402259

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Studies on Indigenous Signed and Spoken Languages in Africa by Emmanuel Asonye,Mary Edward Pdf

This volume is an important exploration of Africa’s rich linguistic diversity. The chapters delve into the complexities of linguistic research, preservation, and cultural understanding, with a regional focus covering indigenous African languages. It honours often-overlooked sign languages, making it a trailblazing work in its combination of signed and spoken languages within the African environment. This book is a must-have for anybody interested in African languages, providing new perspectives on language preservation, cultural identity, and the lasting spirit of linguistic diversity. The individual chapters present an invitation to discover, appreciate, and preserve Africa’s indigenous languages. This volume, intended for linguists, policy makers, and graduate and undergraduate students, presents a practical approach to deciphering the complexity of indigenous African languages, both signed and spoken.

Author : Charamba, Erasmos
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2022-06-24
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781668450352

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Handbook of Research on Teaching in Multicultural and Multilingual Contexts by Charamba, Erasmos Pdf

Several factors have resulted in increased intra- and inter-state migration. This has led to an increase in the enrollment of students with diverse linguistics backgrounds, placing more academic demands on educators. Linguistic diversity presents both opportunities and challenges for educators across the educational spectrum. Language ideologies profoundly shape and constrain the use of language as a resource for learning in multilingual or linguistically diverse classrooms. While English has become the world language, most communities remain, and are becoming more and more multicultural, multilingual, and diverse. The Handbook of Research on Teaching in Multicultural and Multilingual Contexts moves beyond the constraints of current language ideologies and enables the use of a wide range of resources from local semiotic repertoires. It examines the phenomenon of language use, language teaching, multiculturalism, and multilingualism in different learning areas, giving practitioners a voice to spotlight their efforts in order to keep their teaching afloat in culturally and linguistically diverse situations. Covering topics such as Indigenous languages, multilingual deaf communities, and intercultural competence, this major reference work is an essential resource for educators of both K-12 and higher education, pre-service teachers, educational psychologists, linguists, education administrators and policymakers, government officials, researchers, and academicians.

Author : International Year of Indigenous Languages
Publisher : UNESCO Publishing
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2022-09-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789231005213

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State of the art of indigenous languages in research by International Year of Indigenous Languages Pdf

Author : Elizabeth C. Zsiga,One Tlale Boyer,Ruth Kramer
Publisher : Georgetown University Press
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2015-03-03
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781626161535

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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 : Shumirai Nyota,Jacob Mapara,Centre for Advanced Studies of African Society
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 25 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1919932682

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Language as Indigenous Knowledge by Shumirai Nyota,Jacob Mapara,Centre for Advanced Studies of African Society Pdf

Author : G. N. Devy,Geoffrey V. Davis,K. K. Chakravarty
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2016-02-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317293132

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The Language Loss of the Indigenous by G. N. Devy,Geoffrey V. Davis,K. K. Chakravarty Pdf

This volume traces the theme of the loss of language and culture in numerous post-colonial contexts. It establishes that the aphasia imposed on the indigenous is but a visible symptom of a deeper malaise — the mismatch between the symbiotic relation nurtured by the indigenous with their environment and the idea of development put before them as their future. The essays here show how the cultures and the imaginative expressions of indigenous communities all over the world are undergoing a phase of rapid depletion. They unravel the indifference of market forces to diversity and that of the states, unwilling to protect and safeguard these marginalized communities. This book will be useful to scholars and researchers of cultural and literary studies, linguistics, sociology and social anthropology, as well as tribal and indigenous studies.

Author : Ceil Lucas
Publisher : Gallaudet University Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0930323580

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Sign Language Research by Ceil Lucas Pdf

The second international conference on sign language research, hosted by Gallaudet University, yielded critical findings in vital linguistic disciplines -- phonology, morphology, syntax, sociolinguistics, language acquisition and psycholinguistics. Sign Language Research brings together in a fully synthesized volume the work of 24 of the researchers invited to this important gathering. Scholars from Belgium to India, from Finland to Uganda, and from Japan to the United States, exchanged the latest developments in sign language research worldwide. Now, the results of their findings are in this comprehensive volume complete with illustrations and photographs.

Author : G. N. Devy,Geoffrey V. Davis
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2020-10-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000214659

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Orality and Language by G. N. Devy,Geoffrey V. Davis Pdf

Part of the series Key Concepts in Indigenous Studies, this book focuses on the concepts that recur in any discussion of the society, culture and literature among indigenous peoples. This book, the fourth in a five-volume series, deals with the two key concepts of language and orality of indigenous peoples from Asia, Australia, North America and South America. With contributions from renowned scholars, activists and experts from across the globe, it looks at the intricacies of oral transmission of memory and culture, literary production and transmission, and the nature of creativity among indigenous communities. It also discusses the risk of a complete decline of the languages of indigenous peoples, as well as the attempts being made to conserve these languages. Bringing together academic insights and experiences from the ground, this unique book, with its wide coverage, will serve as a comprehensive guide for students, teachers and scholars of indigenous studies. It will be essential reading for those in social and cultural anthropology, tribal studies, sociology and social exclusion studies, politics, religion and theology, cultural studies, literary and postcolonial studies, and Third World and Global South studies, as well as activists working with indigenous communities.

Author : Teresa L. McCarty,Sheilah E. Nicholas,Gillian Wigglesworth
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2019-03-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781788923088

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A World of Indigenous Languages by Teresa L. McCarty,Sheilah E. Nicholas,Gillian Wigglesworth Pdf

Spanning Indigenous settings in Africa, the Americas, Aotearoa/New Zealand, Australia, Central Asia and the Nordic countries, this book examines the multifaceted language reclamation work underway by Indigenous peoples throughout the world. Exploring political, historical, ideological, and pedagogical issues, the book foregrounds the decolonizing aims of contemporary Indigenous language movements inside and outside of schools. Many authors explore language reclamation in their own communities. Together, the authors call for expanded discourses on language planning and policy that embrace Indigenous ways of knowing and forefront grassroots language reclamation efforts as a force for Indigenous sovereignty, social justice, and self-determination. This volume will be of interest to scholars, educators and students in applied linguistics, Ethnic/Indigenous Studies, education, second language acquisition, and comparative-international education, and to a broader audience of language educators, revitalizers and policymakers.

Author : Birgit Brock-Utne,Ingse Skattum
Publisher : Symposium Books Ltd
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 50,8 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 : Helen Meekosha,Karen Soldatic
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2016-01-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317681656

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The Global Politics of Impairment and Disability by Helen Meekosha,Karen Soldatic Pdf

Disability is of central concern to the developing world but has largely been under-represented in global development debates, discourses and negotiations. Similarly, disability studies has overlooked the theorists, or the social experience, of the global South and there has been a one-way transfer of ideas and knowledge from the North to the South in this field. This volume seeks to redress the processes of scholarly colonialism by drawing together a diverse set of understandings, theorizing and experiences. The chapters situate disability within the Southern context and support the work of Southern disabled scholars and activists seeking to decolonize Southern experiences, knowledges and absences in the field while simultaneously attempting to make an intervention into able-bodied (mainstream) development discourses, practices and politics. This book was originally published as a special issue of Third World Quarterly.

Author : Nkonko Kamwangamalu,Richard B. Baldauf Jr.,Robert B. Kaplan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-08
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781134916887

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Language Planning in Africa by Nkonko Kamwangamalu,Richard B. Baldauf Jr.,Robert B. Kaplan Pdf

This volume focuses on language planning in the Cameroon, Sudan and Zimbabwe, explaining the linguistic diversity, historical and political contexts, current language situation (including language-in-education planning), the role of the media, the role of religion and the roles of non-indigenous languages. The authors are indigenous to the situations described, and draw on their experience and extensive fieldwork there. The extended case studies contained in this volume draw together the literature on each of the polities to present an overview of the existing research available, while also providing new research-based information. The purpose of this volume is to provide an up-to-date overview of the language situation in each polity based on a series of key questions, in the hope that this might facilitate the development of a richer theory to guide language policy and planning in other polities where similar issues may arise. This book comprises case studies originally published in the journal Current Issues in Language Planning.

Author : N. Hornberger
Publisher : Springer
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2008-04-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780230582491

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Can Schools Save Indigenous Languages? by N. Hornberger Pdf

This volume offers a close look at four cases of indigenous language revitalization: Maori in Aotearoa/New Zealand, Saami in Scandinavia, Hñähñö in Mexico and Quechua and other indigenous languages in Latin America. Essays by experts from each case are in turn discussed in international perspective by four counterpart experts.

Author : Annelies Kusters,Mara Green,Erin Moriarty,Kristin Snoddon
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2020-08-10
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781501510021

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Sign Language Ideologies in Practice by Annelies Kusters,Mara Green,Erin Moriarty,Kristin Snoddon Pdf

This book focuses on how sign language ideologies influence, manifest in, and are challenged by communicative practices. Sign languages are minority languages using the visual-gestural and tactile modalities, whose affordances are very different from those of spoken languages using the auditory-oral modality.