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Book Synopsis An Expository Compilation of Yoruba Proverbs by : Ayotunde O. Joshua
Download or read book An Expository Compilation of Yoruba Proverbs written by Ayotunde O. Joshua and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-01-11 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, An Expository Compilation of Yoruba Proverbs, which comes in 2 Volumes, is essentially based on Yoruba proverbs compiled, translated and posted for several years now on "I Love Yoruba Proverbs" Facebook page and Twitter account created and administered by the author. The book, which provides over 2,500 Yoruba proverbs treated alphabetically, accompanies each proverb with its English language translation and underlying wisdom or meaning. Volume 1 of the book, presents Yoruba proverbs starting with the Yoruba alphabets of A to I in Chapters 1 to 10, while Volume 2 covers proverbs starting from J to the last Yoruba alphabet of Y in Chapters 11 to 24. Each volume ends with a comprehensive index, which provides a summarised listing of all the proverbs in alphabetical order with each proverb shortened for ease of presentation, and indicating the Volume and the page number of the book, the proverb can be found. The index allows the reader to search and check for the details of any proverb in any of the volumes of the book. With its direct and easy-to-read style, this book should prove invaluable to anyone interested in improving his or her knowledge of Yoruba proverbs and vocabulary, as well as deepening his or her proficiency of Yoruba language, as a whole. Its content should also prove a useful resource for further research work on different aspects of Yoruba proverbs.
Book Synopsis Yoruba Proverbs by : Oyekan Owomoyela
Download or read book Yoruba Proverbs written by Oyekan Owomoyela and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 515 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Yoruba Proverbs is the most comprehensive collection to date of more than five thousand Yoruban proverbs that showcase Yoruba oral tradition. Following Oyekan Owomoyela's introduction, which provides a framework and description of Yoruba cultural beliefs, the proverbs are arranged by theme into five sections: the good person; the fortunate person (or the good life); relationships; human nature; rights and responsibilities; and truisms. Each proverb is presented in Yoruba with a literal English translation, followed by a brief commentary explaining the meaning of the proverb within the oral tradition." "This definitive source book on Yoruba proverbs is the first to give such detailed, systematic classification and analysis alongside a careful assessment of the risks and pitfalls of submitting this genre to the canons of literary analysis."--BOOK JACKET.
Download or read book Yoruba Culture written by and published by Dareaders House. This book was released on 2017-01-08 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Yoruba Culture Proverbs is a compilation of common Yoruba Proverbs. Proverbs are wise sayings passed from the old to young. The goals of introducing Yoruba Culture to children through proverbs are to improve their self-image and to assist in buildings their morals.
Book Synopsis Yoruba Proverbs Handbook by : Ayotunde O. Joshua
Download or read book Yoruba Proverbs Handbook written by Ayotunde O. Joshua and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-02 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Yoruba Proverbs Handbook provides over 2,500 Yoruba Proverbs along with their concise English translations in a clear, breezy and easy-to-read style. The proverbs have been listed alphabetically to make it easy to search for and find specific proverbs. The book should prove a handy reference to anyone on the go. Treat it as a companion; take it wherever you go; treat it like a good friend and watch how proficient you become at Yoruba proverbs and Yoruba language as a whole.
Download or read book Why Do We Quote? written by Ruth Finnegan and published by Open Book Publishers. This book was released on 2011-03-01 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Quoting is all around us. But do we really know what it means? How do people actually quote today, and how did our present systems come about? This book brings together a down-to-earth account of contemporary quoting with an examination of the comparative and historical background that lies behind it and the characteristic way that quoting links past and present, the far and the near.Drawing from anthropology, cultural history, folklore, cultural studies, sociolinguistics, literary studies and the ethnography of speaking, Ruth Finnegan 's fascinating study sets our present conventions into crosscultural and historical perspective. She traces the curious history of quotation marks, examines the long tradition of quotation collections with their remarkable recycling across the centuries, and explores the uses of quotation in literary, visual and oral traditions. The book tracks the changing defi nitions and control of quoting over the millennia and in doing so throws new light on ideas such as imitation, allusion, authorship, originality and plagiarism .
Book Synopsis English as a Global Language by : David Crystal
Download or read book English as a Global Language written by David Crystal and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-03-29 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written in a detailed and fascinating manner, this book is ideal for general readers interested in the English language.
Book Synopsis Yoruba Proverbs with Feminine Lexis by : Laide Sheba
Download or read book Yoruba Proverbs with Feminine Lexis written by Laide Sheba and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Yoruba proverbs with fiminine lexis is a choice collection of yoruba words of wisdom on a wide spectrum of issues revolving around a woman's life. This compilation is a storehouse of wisdom relevant to women's values and virtues, essential for building wholesome lives within their world.
Book Synopsis Mysterious Secrets of the Dark Kingdom by : J. P. Timmons
Download or read book Mysterious Secrets of the Dark Kingdom written by J. P. Timmons and published by . This book was released on 2008-07 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Genre - text - interpretation by : Kaarina Koski
Download or read book Genre - text - interpretation written by Kaarina Koski and published by Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura. This book was released on 2016-01-01 with total page 487 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents current discussions on the concept of genre. It introduces innovative, multidisciplinary approaches to contemporary and historical genres, their roles in cultural discourse, how they change, and their relations to each other. The reader is guided into the discussion surrounding this key concept and its history through a general introduction, followed by eighteen chapters that represent a variety of discursive practices as well as analytic methods from several scholarly traditions. This volume will have wide appeal to several academic audiences within the humanities, both in Finland and abroad, and will especially be of interest to scholars of folklore, language and cultural expression.
Book Synopsis Theory and description in African Linguistics by : Emily Clem
Download or read book Theory and description in African Linguistics written by Emily Clem and published by Language Science Press. This book was released on 2019 with total page 788 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The papers in this volume were presented at the 47th Annual Conference on African Linguistics at UC Berkeley in 2016. The papers offer new descriptions of African languages and propose novel theoretical analyses of them. The contributions span topics in phonetics, phonology, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics and reflect the typological and genetic diversity of languages in Africa. Four papers in the volume examine Areal Features and Linguistic Reconstruction in Africa, and were presented at a special workshop on this topic held alongside the general session of ACAL.
Book Synopsis Yoruba proverbs by : Oyekan Owomoyela
Download or read book Yoruba proverbs written by Oyekan Owomoyela and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Divination and Interpretation of Signs in the Ancient World by : Amar Annus
Download or read book Divination and Interpretation of Signs in the Ancient World written by Amar Annus and published by Oriental Inst Publications Sales. This book was released on 2010 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The concept of sign, a portent observed in the physical world, which indicates future events, is found in all ancient cultures, but was first developed in ancient Mesopotamian texts. This branch of Babylonian scientific knowledge extensively influenced other parts of the world, and similar texts written in Aramaic, Sanscrit, Sogdian, and other languages. The seminar will investigate how much do we know about the Babylonian theory and hermeneutics of omens, and the scope of their possible influences on other cultures and regions.
Book Synopsis Cultures, Contexts, and World Englishes by : Yamuna Kachru
Download or read book Cultures, Contexts, and World Englishes written by Yamuna Kachru and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2008-04-15 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume aims to familiarize readers with the varieties of world Englishes used across cultures and to create awareness of some of the linguistic and socially relevant contexts and functions that have given rise to them. It emphasizes that effective communication among users of different Englishes requires awareness of the varieties in use and their cultural, social, and ideational functions. Cultures, Contexts and World Englishes: demonstrates the rich results of integrating theory, methodology and application features critical and detailed discussion of the sociolinguistics of English in the globalized world gives equal emphasis to grammar and pragmatics of variation and to uses of Englishes in spoken and written modes in major English-using regions of the world. Each chapter includes suggestions for further reading and challenging discussion questions and appropriate research projects designed to enhance the usefulness of this volume in courses such as world Englishes, English in the Global Context, Sociolinguistics, Critical Applied Linguistics, Language Contact and Convergence, Ethnography of Communication, and Crosscultural Communication.
Book Synopsis Encyclopedia of LITERATURE by : JOSEPH T. SHIPLEY
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Book Synopsis Nigerian Pentecostalism by : Nimi Wariboko
Download or read book Nigerian Pentecostalism written by Nimi Wariboko and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2014 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part 1. Origins and spirituality of Nigerian Pentecostalism. Sources of Nigerian pentecostalism --The spell of the invisible --Excremental visions in postcolonial Pentecostalism --Desire and disgust : ways of being for God --The Pentecostal self : from body to body politic --Part 2. Ethical vision of Nigerian Pentecostal spirituality. Politics: between ontology and spiritual warfare --Miracles, sovereignty, and community --Altersovereignty and virtue of Pentecostal friendship --Spirituality and the weight of blackness --"This neighbor cannot be loved!" : invisibility and nudity of the "Pentecostal other"--Pentecostalism and Nigerian society.
Author :Pan African Society for Musical Arts Education Publisher :African Minds ISBN 13 :1920051112 Total Pages :359 pages Book Rating :4.9/5 (2 download)
Book Synopsis Emerging Solutions for Musical Arts Education in Africa by : Pan African Society for Musical Arts Education
Download or read book Emerging Solutions for Musical Arts Education in Africa written by Pan African Society for Musical Arts Education and published by African Minds. This book was released on 2005 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Emerging Solutions for Musical arts Education in South Africa offers peer-reviewed articles prepared for the 2003 Conference of the Pan African Society for Musical Arts Education in Africa held in Kisumu, Maseno, Kenya. Not only does this publication voice the solutions offered by 31 authors from the African continent and beyond, but it presents in a unique and highly accessible fashion the collective voice of the conference participants. True to the spirit of ubuntu - an individual is only a person through other people (their communities) - this publication is a reflection of the essence of an overarching sub-Saharan philosophy; the contents represents a conference where papers were not presented, but where conference participants engaged to discuss solutions for the musical arts on the African continent. While the individual voice has been given its rightful place, the collective voice represents an emergent song composed by the scholarly community in oral fashion. This publication provides insight into the problems of musical arts education in Africa; and solutions for musical arts education.
Book Synopsis English Colour Terms in Context by : Anders Steinvall
Download or read book English Colour Terms in Context written by Anders Steinvall and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
