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Author : Felix Banda
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 44 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book A Unified Standard Orthography for South Central African Languages written by Felix Banda and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Solani Ngobeni
Publisher : African Books Collective
ISBN 13 : 0798302275
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (983 download)
Download or read book Scholarly Publishing in Africa written by Solani Ngobeni and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2010 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sadly, the same cannot be said about scholarly publishing which to all intents and purposes continues to remain the flotsam and jetsam of the African publishing landscape. --
Author : Carrie Dyck
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443872954
Total Pages : 203 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)
Download or read book Dialogue on Dialect Standardization written by Carrie Dyck and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2015-01-12 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume provides a space for the development of dialogue between dialectologists, language community activists, and other researchers working on the development of orthographies regarding issues that arise during the creation of writing systems in places where there is dialect variation and an absence of writing systems, or where there is a writing system for a national language but not for the particular related language. The chapters in this volume address two major themes: first, the imperative for standardization is influenced by many social and political factors, including identity, age, ease of use of the language, and familiarity, as well as the nature of the language itself. The second theme investigated by the authors is the assumption of the value of standardization, which in many cases leads to overt or covert negotiations or conflicts in the process of language planning and orthography development. These themes are addressed through the experiences of the authors of working with languages and dialects in various parts of the world, including Cyprus, Poland, Canada, the Caribbean, and Mexico, among others. The languages examined in this volume include both those for which there have long been writing systems for “standard” dialects (such as Cypriot Greek and Podlachian, which is sometimes said to be a Belarusian-Ukrainian variety) and those for which writing has been only recently introduced (such as Cayuga, Oneida, and Mixean).
Author : Mohammad Ali Salmani Nodoushan
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1304165973
Total Pages : 151 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (41 download)
Download or read book International Journal of Language Studies (IJLS) – volume 7(3) written by Mohammad Ali Salmani Nodoushan and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013-06-24 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Papers in this issue by: Louise CUMMINGS (1-32); Finex NDHLOVU (33-58); Justin P. WHITE & Andrew J. DEMIL (59-88); Richard BALTUS & Hassan BELHIAH 89-118 (); Lan-fen HUANG (119-136); Gibreel Sadeq ALAGHBARY (137-140)
Author : Ian Dicks
Publisher : African Books Collective
ISBN 13 : 9996025284
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (96 download)
Download or read book A Practical Guide to Understanding Ciyawo written by Ian Dicks and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2010-06-01 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Practical Guide to Understanding Ciyawo has been developed over fourteen years and systematically explains for the novice the important aspects of Ciyawo grammar for effective communication. A practical grammar guide, the instruction is accessible, giving the basics of pronunciation, to building verb tenses, to ways of combining the different elements of the language in order to form sentences.
Author : Finex Ndhlovu
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443884790
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)
Download or read book Hegemony and Language Policies in Southern Africa written by Finex Ndhlovu and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2015-10-13 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hegemony and Language Policies in Southern Africa argues that language policy - whether formal or informal, micro or macro - has always been the centrepiece of identity imaginings, struggles for political emancipation, and quests for cultural affirmation and economic advancement in the colonial and postcolonial histories of African nations. This book addresses questions on the social and political history of language policies, focusing on their significance for ethnic, immigrant and social groups, as well as for various political projects in southern Africa, as they have unfolded from the late.
Author : M. Prinsloo
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137309865
Total Pages : 139 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (373 download)
Download or read book Educating for Language and Literacy Diversity written by M. Prinsloo and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-11-12 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Educators and researchers in variety of locations increasingly encounter linguistically and socio-culturally diverse groups of students in their classrooms and lecture halls. This book examines everyday forms of talk and writing in relation to standardised forms and schooling expectations to suggest ways forward in educational discourse.
Author : A. M. Chebanne
Publisher : Casas
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Unifying Southern African Languages written by A. M. Chebanne and published by Casas. This book was released on 2003 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Finex Ndhlovu
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
ISBN 13 : 1788923375
Total Pages : 199 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (889 download)
Download or read book Decolonising Multilingualism in Africa written by Finex Ndhlovu and published by Multilingual Matters. This book was released on 2021-07-16 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book interrogates and problematises African multilingualism as it is currently understood in language education and research. It challenges the enduring colonial matrices of power hidden within mainstream conceptions of multilingualism that have been propagated in the Global North and then exported to the Global South under the aegis of colonial modernity and pretensions of universal epistemic relevance. The book contributes new points of method, theory and interpretation that will advance scholarly conversations on decolonial epistemology by introducing the notion of coloniality of language – a summary term that describes the ways in which notions of language and multilingualism in post-colonial societies remain colonial. The authors begin the process of mapping out what a socially realistic notion of multilingualism would look like if we took into account the voices of marginalised and ignored African communities of practice – both on the African continent and in the diasporas.
Author : Ian D. Dicks
Publisher : African Books Collective
ISBN 13 : 9990887519
Total Pages : 514 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (98 download)
Download or read book An African Worldview written by Ian D. Dicks and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2012 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book Ian Dicks informs the reader about the ways in which the Yawo of Malawi view the world. The Yawo are predominantly Muslim, yet many maintain strong links with their traditional religion. They are a largely oral society, teaching and reinforcing their beliefs and practices using oral literature, which includes myths, proverbs, proverbial stories, songs of advice and prayers at various stages of the life cycle, particularly during initiation events. Ian Dicks describes in detail the Yawo's material world, customs, beliefs and rituals, and juxtaposes these with Yawo oral literature. He then examines them under six worldview categories, the result being a rich description of the way in which the Yawo see the world. This book is not an armchair study but has the feel of being written by an eyewitness, by someone who has had first-hand experience of the subject and who seeks to describe this in a manner which is sensitive to the Yawo and their culture.
Author : Nic Spaull
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004402373
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)
Download or read book Improving Early Literacy Outcomes written by Nic Spaull and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-05-15 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learning to read and write for meaning and pleasure are arguably the two most important competences that children acquire in primary school. Yet, in 2019 more than one half of children worldwide do not reach this first rung on the literacy ladder. Improving Early Literacy Outcomes aims to address this head-on, by foregrounding the work of more than 40 researchers, most of them living in, and working on, developing countries. Their contributions illuminate, magnify, and discover anew the importance of improving early reading, through precise alignment of curriculum, teaching, and assessment, and with a special focus on some of the most under-studied countries in the world (e.g., Burkina Faso, Niger, and Senegal). Through probing analyses of research, policy, and practice, the book highlights the common experiences of high aspirations repeatedly confronting harsh realities. Sixteen interconnected chapters cast an ever-vigilant and deflationary eye on the temptation to take an unrealistic approach to early literacy, and also caution against lumping all languages, contexts, and policy-challenges into a single heap. This book provides an indispensable guide to policymakers, practitioners, educators, and academics working towards the realisation of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Improving the teaching, learning, and assessment of early grade literacy is key not only to expanding the quality, access, and equity of education, but also to unlocking all the other SDGs, and ultimately to driving development.
Author : Ari Sherris
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
ISBN 13 : 1788921933
Total Pages : 137 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (889 download)
Download or read book Making Signs, Translanguaging Ethnographies written by Ari Sherris and published by Multilingual Matters. This book was released on 2018-10-29 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the beginning of a conversation across Social Semiotics, Translanguaging, Complexity Theory and Radical Sociolinguistics. In its explorations of meaning, multimodality, communication and emerging language practices, the book includes theoretical and empirical chapters that move toward an understanding of communication in its dynamic complexity, and its social semiotic and situated character. It relocates current debates in linguistics and in multimodality, as well as conceptions of centers/margins, by re-conceptualizing communicative practice through investigation of indigenous/oral communities, street art performances, migration contexts, recycling artefacts and signage repurposing. The book takes an innovative approach to both the form and content of its scholarly writing, and will be of interest to all those involved in interdisciplinary thinking, researching and writing.
Author : Robert Blackwood
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350071269
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (5 download)
Download or read book Multilingual Memories written by Robert Blackwood and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-10-17 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on a range of disciplines from within the humanities and social sciences, Multilingual Memories addresses questions of remembering and forgetting from an explicitly multilingual perspective. From a museum at Victoria Falls in Zambia to a Japanese-American internment in Arkansas, this book probes how the medium of the communication of memories affirms social orders across the globe. Applying linguistic landscape approaches to a wide variety of monuments and memorials from around the world, this book identifies how multilingualism (and its absence) contributes to the inevitable partiality of public memorials. Using a number of different methods, including multimodal discourse analysis, code preferences, interaction orders, and indexicality, the chapters explore how memorials have the potential to erase linguistic diversity as much as they can entextualize multilingualism. With examples from Africa, Asia, Australasia, Europe, and North and South America, this volume also examines the extent to which multilingual memories legitimize not only specific discourses but also individuals, particular communities, and ethno-linguistic groups – often to the detriment of others.
Author : Christine Scherer
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000589048
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (5 download)
Download or read book Doctoral Training and Higher Education in Africa written by Christine Scherer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-05-12 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on insights from across Africa, this book investigates the discourses and practices that guide doctoral training today. Higher education is regarded as key for driving development and innovation, creating an informed knowledge base equipped to tackle local and global challenges. For too long external forces defined education in the continent, but now African countries are revitalising higher education, designing doctoral training to fit distinctly African needs and contexts. This book investigates the history, present and future potential of doctoral training on international, regional, national and institutional levels. Bringing together expertise from both research and practice, the book analyses the frameworks and structures of the doctoral phase, and how institutions, supervisors, mentors and young scholars meet the challenges of training in real life. The book covers issues such as access to education, proactive recruitment, funding issues, practitioner expertise, enrolment and drop-out, across a range of countries including South Africa, Mozambique, Ethiopia, Nigeria, Benin, Ghana and Morocco. This book will be a rich resource for higher education administrators and policy makers, as well as researchers and academics with an interest in higher education in Africa.
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Total Pages : 538 pages
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Download or read book The African Book Publishing Record written by and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 524 pages
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Download or read book Southern African Linguistics and Applied Language Studies written by and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert Serpell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009523805
Total Pages : 187 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (95 download)
Download or read book In Search of Integrity written by Robert Serpell and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2024-04-30 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Element traces the origins of an individual's philosophical orientation and the processes by which it was elaborated over the course of his life-journey. The author discusses how selected stories from his personal experience reflect the intimate culture of a particular social group of which he was a participant member at the time. The author's life-journey includes a tumultuous period of emerging adulthood in Singapore and Oxford. Moving to Zambia in 1965 aged 21, he conducted research, teaching and writing including sojourns in England and in Maryland USA. He discusses how his perspective in cultural psychology relates to his personal life as a migrant and as a parent, and to his views on how the world can best address the challenges of cooperative communication in the 2020s.
