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ISBN: 9781108417983 1108417981 9781108283991 9781108406185 1108283993 1108287220 1108285066 Year: 2019 Publisher: Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge university press,
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"The Cambridge Handbook of African Linguistics: An in-depth and comprehensive state-of-the-art study of 'African languages' and 'language in Africa' since its beginnings as a 'colonial science' at the turn of the 20th century in Europe. Compiled by 56 internationally renowned scholars, this ground-breaking study looks at past and current research on 'African languages' and 'language in Africa' under the impact of paradigmatic changes from 'colonial' to 'postcolonial' perspectives. It addresses current trends in the study of the role and functions of language, African and other, in pre- and postcolonial African societies. Highlighting the central role that the 'language factor' plays in postcolonial transformation processes of sociocultural modernization and economic development, it also addresses more recent, particularly urban, patterns of communication, and outlines applied dimensions of digitalization and human language technology"--
African languages. --- Linguistics --- Linguistics. --- Africa. --- African languages --- Linguistic science --- Science of language --- Language and languages --- Linguistics - Africa --- Llengües africanes --- Lingüística
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ISBN: 1316559858 1316560244 1316560635 131656102X 1316562581 1316105024 1107088550 1107459672 1316557510 Year: 2016 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,
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Development is based on communication through language. With more than two thousand languages being used in Africa, language becomes a highly relevant factor in all sectors of political, social, cultural and economic life. This important sociolinguistic dimension hitherto remains underrated and under-researched in 'Western' mainstream development studies. The book discusses the resourcefulness of languages, both local and global, in view of the ongoing transformation of African societies as much as for economic development. From a novel 'applied African sociolinguistics' perspective it analyses the continuing effects of linguistic imperialism on postcolonial African societies, in particular regarding the educational sector, through imposed hegemonic languages such as Arabic and the ex-colonial languages of European provenance. It offers a broad interdisciplinary scientific approach to the linguistic dimensions of sociocultural modernisation and economic development in Africa, written for both the non-linguistically trained reader as much as for the linguistically trained researcher and language practitioner.
Africa - Languages - Social aspects. --- African languages --- Language policy --- Economic development --- Sociolinguistics --- Philology & Linguistics --- Languages & Literatures --- Language and languages --- Language and society --- Society and language --- Sociology of language --- Language and culture --- Linguistics --- Sociology --- Integrational linguistics (Oxford school) --- Development, Economic --- Economic growth --- Growth, Economic --- Economic policy --- Economics --- Statics and dynamics (Social sciences) --- Development economics --- Resource curse --- Glottopolitics --- Institutional linguistics --- Language and state --- Languages, National --- Languages, Official --- National languages --- Official languages --- State and language --- Communication policy --- Language planning --- Social aspects --- Sociological aspects --- Government policy --- Africa --- Eastern Hemisphere --- Languages --- Social aspects. --- Sociolinguistics.
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ISBN: 1316519546 1009024310 1009021648 1009021443 Year: 2022 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,
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Of all of the African language families, the Chadic languages belonging to the Afroasiatic macro-family are highly internally diverse due to a long history and various scenarios of language contact. This pioneering study explores the development of the sound systems of the 'Central Chadic' languages, a major branch of the Chadic family. Drawing on and comparing field data from about 60 different Central Chadic languages, H. Ekkehard Wolff unpacks the specific phonological principles that underpin the Chadic languages' diverse phonological evolution, arguing that their diversity results to no little extent from historical processes of 'prosodification' of reconstructable segments of the proto-language. The book offers meticulous historical analyses of some 60 words from Proto-Central Chadic, in up to 60 individual modern languages, including both consonants and vowels. Particular emphasis is on tracing the deep-rooted origin and impact of palatalisation and labialisation prosodies within a phonological system that, on its deepest level, recognises only one vowel phoneme */a/.
Chadic languages. --- Afroasiatic languages --- Chadic language --- Phonology.
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Year: 1980 Publisher: Glückstadt : Augustin,
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ISBN: 9781009024310 9781316519547 9781009010672 Year: 2022 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge University Press
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Year: 1979 Publisher: Malibu Undena
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ISBN: 9781009346375 Year: 2024 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge University Press
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ISBN: 9781009024310 Year: 2022 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge University Press
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ISBN: 3870300481 Year: 1980 Publisher: Glückstadt J.J. Augustin
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Nigeria --- Langue --- Littérature orale --- Linguistique
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ISBN: 9783631632314 3631632312 Year: 2013 Volume: 14 Publisher: Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang,
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African languages --- Language policy --- Sociolinguistics --- African --- Multilingualism --- Social aspects --- Languages --- Multilinguisme --- Sociolinguistique --- Langues africaines --- Politique linguistique --- Aspect social --- Social aspects. --- Languages. --- Aspect social. --- African languages - Social aspects --- Language policy - Africa --- Sociolinguistics - Africa --- African - Languages --- Multilingualism - Africa
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