Ghanaian Pidgin English in Its West African Context - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Ghanaian Pidgin English in Its West African Context write by Magnus Huber. This book was released on 1999-01-01. Ghanaian Pidgin English in Its West African Context available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This first published full-scale study of the Ghanaian variety of West African Pidgin English (GhaPE) makes extensive use of hitherto neglected historical material and provides a synchronic account of GhaPE's structure and sociolinguistics. Special focus is on the differences between GhaPE and other West African Pidgins, in particular the development of, and interrelations between, the different varieties of restructured English in West Africa, from Sierra Leone to Cameroon. This monograph further includes an overview of the history of Afro-European contact languages in Lower Guinea with special emphasis on the Gold Coast; an outline of the settlement of Freetown, Sierra Leone, with a description of how and when the transplantation of Sierra Leonean Krio to other West African countries took place; an analysis of the linguistic evidence for the origin, development, and spread of restructured Englishes on the Lower Guinea Coast; an account of the different varieties of GhaPE and their sociolinguistic status in the contemporary linguistic ecology of Ghana; as well as a comprehensive structural description of the uneducated variety of GhaPE. The book is accompanied by a CD-ROM which contains illustrative material such as spoken GhaPE and photographs.
The Survey of Pidgin and Creole Languages
The Survey of Pidgin and Creole Languages - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Survey of Pidgin and Creole Languages write by Susanne Maria Michaelis. This book was released on 2013. The Survey of Pidgin and Creole Languages available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The most authoritative guide ever published to the world's pidgin and creole languages. The 3-volume Survey describes their histories and linguistic characteristics. The Atlas of Pidgins and Creoles, published at the same time, shows how 130 linguistic features are distributed among the world's languages.
Philosophical Foundations of the African Humanities through Postcolonial Perspectives
Philosophical Foundations of the African Humanities through Postcolonial Perspectives - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Philosophical Foundations of the African Humanities through Postcolonial Perspectives write by . This book was released on 2019-03-19. Philosophical Foundations of the African Humanities through Postcolonial Perspectives available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. These essays by scholars in postcolonial studies demonstrate that the humanities’ relevance lies, not in creating a “world culture” to address the world’s problems, but in critical analyses of alterity, difference, and how the Other is perceived, defined and subdued.
The African Palimpsest
The African Palimpsest - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The African Palimpsest write by Chantal Zabus. This book was released on 2007-01-01. The African Palimpsest available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Uniting a sense of the political dimensions of language appropriation with a serious, yet accessible linguistic terminology, The African Palimpsest examines the strategies of ‘indigenization’ whereby West African writers have made their literary English or French distinctively ‘African’. Through the apt metaphor of the palimpsest – a surface that has been written on, written over, partially erased and written over again – the book examines such well-known West African writers as Achebe, Armah, Ekwensi, Kourouma, Okara, Saro–Wiwa, Soyinka and Tutuola as well as lesser-known writers from francophone and anglophone Africa. Providing a great variety of case-studies in Nigerian Pidgin, Akan, Igbo, Maninka, Yoruba, Wolof and other African languages, the book also clarifies the vital interface between Europhone African writing and the new outlets for African artistic expression in (auto-)translation, broadcast television, radio and film.
New Scholarship on Ghanaian Literatures, Languages and Cultures
New Scholarship on Ghanaian Literatures, Languages and Cultures - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook New Scholarship on Ghanaian Literatures, Languages and Cultures write by Dannabang Kuwabong. This book was released on 2024-03-18. New Scholarship on Ghanaian Literatures, Languages and Cultures available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume showcases new research on popular academic topics in Ghana. Its wide range of focus across disciplines includes topics such as pidgin, performing apologies and politeness, music, the argument for adopting geographical indications (GI) policies for Ghana’s unique agricultural products, and the poetics of names, among many others. It will appeal particularly to students pursuing degrees in Africana and Ghanaian studies.
