Sociolinguistics in African Contexts - 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 Sociolinguistics in African Contexts write by Augustin Emmanuel Ebongue. This book was released on 2017-05-11. Sociolinguistics in African Contexts available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume offers a new perspective on sociolinguistics in Africa. Eschewing the traditional approach which looks at the interaction between European and African languages in the wake of colonialism, this book turns its focus to the social dynamics of African languages and African societies. Divided into two sections, the book offers insight into the crucial topics such as: language vitality and endangerment, the birth of ‘new languages’, a sociolinguistics of the city, language contact and language politics. It spans the continent from Algeria to South Africa, Guinea-Bissau to Kenya and addresses the following broad themes: Language variation, contact and changeThe dynamics of urban, rural and youth languagesPolicy and practice This book provides an alternative to the Eurocentric view of sociolinguistic dynamics in Africa, and will make an ideal read or supplemental textbook for scholars and students in the field/disciplines of African languages and linguistics, and those interested in southern theory or ‘sociolinguistics in the margins’.
The Sociolinguistics of Development in Africa
The Sociolinguistics of Development in Africa - 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 Sociolinguistics of Development in Africa write by Paulin G. Djité. This book was released on 2008. The Sociolinguistics of Development in Africa available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book is an analysis of modernisation informed by the place of language in education, health, the economy and governance in the African context. It paints a wide canvas of Africa in its different facets, and shows how language is used as an instrument to deny access to socioeconomic and political emancipation.
Language and Society in Africa
Language and Society in Africa - 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 Language and Society in Africa write by Robert K. Herbert. This book was released on 1992. Language and Society in Africa available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Aims to provide a survey of sociolinguistic theory and practice in Africa. The book is based on papers delivered at a conference at the University of Witwatersrand in February, 1990. It includes chapters on language policy, language planning, the analysis of social interaction, and others.
Nurturing Language
Nurturing Language - 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 Nurturing Language write by Gerrit J. Dimmendaal. This book was released on 2022-11-07. Nurturing Language available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This monograph introduces students and scholars in linguistics, anthropology, and intercultural communication to anthropological linguistics, with a special focus on Africa. Among the topics addressed are semantic fields such as kinship or colour terminology, spatial orientation, linguistic relativity and the link between language and cognition, onomastics, the ethnography of communication, interactional sociolinguistics, emotions, (im)politeness strategies, conversation analysis, and non-verbal communication.
Language and Social History
Language and Social History - 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 Language and Social History write by Rajend Mesthrie. This book was released on 1995. Language and Social History available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
