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Rethinking Language Use in Digital Africa
Author | : Leketi Makalela,Goodith White |
Publsiher | : Multilingual Matters |
Total Pages | : 186 |
Release | : 2021-06-23 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9781800412323 |
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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.
Language in Africa
Author | : Edgar Gregersen,Edgar A. Gregersen |
Publsiher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 1977 |
Genre | : African languages |
ISBN | : 0677043805 |
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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.
An Introduction to African Languages
Author | : George Tucker Childs |
Publsiher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 2003-01-01 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9027226067 |
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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.
The Language families of Africa
Author | : Alice Werner |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 164 |
Release | : 1925 |
Genre | : Africa |
ISBN | : UOM:39015019984056 |
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Language History and Linguistic Description in Africa
Author | : Ian Maddieson,Thomas J. Hinnebusch |
Publsiher | : Africa World Press |
Total Pages | : 334 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : 0865436320 |
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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.
Language in South Africa
Author | : Rajend Mesthrie |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 526 |
Release | : 2002-10-17 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : 0521791057 |
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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.
Language and Exclusion
Author | : Ayọ Bamgboṣe |
Publsiher | : LIT Verlag Münster |
Total Pages | : 164 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 3825847756 |
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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.
The Languages of Urban Africa
Author | : Fiona Mc Laughlin |
Publsiher | : A&C Black |
Total Pages | : 502 |
Release | : 2009-08-06 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9781847061164 |
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A rich series of geographically diverse case studies examining the historical and theoretical issues involved in the study of urban African languages.