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Author : Janice Graham Bernsten
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (129 download)
Download or read book The Integration of English Loans in Shona written by Janice Graham Bernsten and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Janice Graham Bernsten
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 24 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (15 download)
Download or read book English Loans in Shona written by Janice Graham Bernsten and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Collen Sabao
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 104003974X
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)
Download or read book Language Matters in Contemporary Zimbabwe written by Collen Sabao and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-06-17 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Speaking to a broader global preoccupation with the state of languages and language development, this book considers issues surrounding the diverse languages, linguistic communities, and cultures of Zimbabwe. Reflecting on Shona, Xitsonga, Sotho, Xhosa, Tjwao, Nambya, IsiNdebele, Nyanja, Tshivenda, English and Braille, the book uncovers both the internal and external factors that impact language structures, language use and language ideologies across the country. The book considers how colonial legacies and contemporary language domination and minoritisation have led to language endangerment. It considers the fate of communities whose languages are marginalised and, in the process, poses questions on what can and should be done to preserve Zimbabwean languages. The authors' offerings range across subjects as diverse as music, linguistic innovation, education, human rights, literature, language politics and language policy, in order to build a rich and nuanced picture of language matters in the country. Coming at a critical moment of increasing mobility, migration, cultural plurality and globalisation, this book will be an important resource for researchers across African literature, linguistics, communication, policy and politics.
Author : Matthias Brenzinger
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110870606
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (18 download)
Download or read book Language Death written by Matthias Brenzinger and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2012-10-25 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE SOCIOLOGY OF LANGUAGE brings to students, researchers and practitioners in all of the social and language-related sciences carefully selected book-length publications dealing with sociolinguistic theory, methods, findings and applications. It approaches the study of language in society in its broadest sense, as a truly international and interdisciplinary field in which various approaches, theoretical and empirical, supplement and complement each other. The series invites the attention of linguists, language teachers of all interests, sociologists, political scientists, anthropologists, historians etc. to the development of the sociology of language.
Author : Carol Myers-Scotton
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780198237129
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (371 download)
Download or read book Duelling Languages written by Carol Myers-Scotton and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As much a study in grammatical theory as of language in use, the aim of this book is to describe and explain intrasential codeswitching - the production of two or more languages within the same sentence.
Author : Christian Uffmann
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110934825
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (19 download)
Download or read book Vowel Epenthesis in Loanword Adaptation written by Christian Uffmann and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2012-02-14 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While it is commonly assumed that languages epenthesize context-free default vowels, this book shows that in loanword adaptation, several strategies are found which interact intricately. Large loanword corpora in Shona, Sranan, Samoan and Kinyarwanda are analyzed statistically, and the patterns are modeled in a version of Optimality Theory which introduces constraints on autosegmental representations. The focus of this book is on English loans in Shona, providing an in-depth empirical and formal analysis of epenthesis in this language. The analysis of additional languages allows for solid typological generalizations. In addition, a diachronic study of epenthesis in Sranan provides insight into how insertion patterns develop historically. In all languages analyzed, default epenthesis exists alongside vowel harmony and spreading from adjacent consonants. While different languages prefer different strategies, these strategies are subject to the same set of constraints, however. In spreading, feature markedness plays an important role alongside sonority. We suggest universal markedness scales which combine with constraints on autosegmental configurations to model the patterns found in individual languages and at the same time to constrain the range of possible crosslinguistic variation.
Author : Carol Myers-Scotton
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780198299530
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (995 download)
Download or read book Contact Linguistics written by Carol Myers-Scotton and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2002 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Contact linguistics' provides an account of contact outcome theories, including the author's own. It has coursebook potential for advanced undergraduates and graduates.
Author : Raymond Hickey
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108425348
Total Pages : 443 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)
Download or read book English in Multilingual South Africa written by Raymond Hickey and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-11-21 with total page 443 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An innovative and insightful exploration of varieties of English in contemporary South Africa.
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Author : Rodolfo Jacobson
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110812193
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (18 download)
Download or read book Codeswitching Worldwide. [I] written by Rodolfo Jacobson and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2011-07-20 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The series publishes state-of-the-art work on core areas of linguistics across theoretical frameworks as well as studies that provide new insights by building bridges to neighbouring fields such as neuroscience and cognitive science. The series considers itself a forum for cutting-edge research based on solid empirical data on language in its various manifestations, including sign languages. It regards linguistic variation in its synchronic and diachronic dimensions as well as in its social contexts as important sources of insight for a better understanding of the design of linguistic systems and the ecology and evolution of language.
Author : Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191514128
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)
Download or read book Grammars in Contact written by Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2007-01-04 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Languages can be similar in many ways - they can resemble each other in categories, constructions and meanings, and in the actual forms used to express these. A shared feature may be based on common genetic origin, or result from geographic proximity and borrowing. Some aspects of grammar are spread more readily than others. The question is - which are they? When languages are in contact with each other, what changes do we expect to occur in their grammatical structures? Only an inductively based cross-linguistic examination can provide an answer. This is what this volume is about. The book starts with a typological introduction outlining principles of contact-induced change and factors which facilitate diffusion of linguistic traits. It is followed by twelve studies of contact-induced changes in languages from Amazonia, East and West Africa, Australia, East Timor, and the Sinitic domain. Set alongside these are studies of Pennsylvania German spoken by Mennonites in Canada in contact with English, Basque in contact with Romance languages in Spain and France, and language contact in the Balkans. All the studies are based on intensive fieldwork, and each cast in terms of the typological parameters set out in the introduction. The book includes a glossary to facilitate its use by graduates and advanced undergraduates in linguistics and in disciplines such as anthropology.
Author : Carol Myers-Scotton
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780198239239
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (392 download)
Download or read book Social Motivations for Codeswitching written by Carol Myers-Scotton and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book deals with codeswitching, the use of two or more different languages in the same conversation. The author advances a theoretical argument which aims at a general explanation of the motivations underlying the phenomenon.
Author : Moradewun Adejunmobi
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
ISBN 13 : 9781853597725
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (977 download)
Download or read book Vernacular Palaver written by Moradewun Adejunmobi and published by Multilingual Matters. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adejunmobi highlights the continuing appeal of local identities for participants in social networks where communication occurs in languages that are not mother tongues. He shows how in West Africa notions of localness & locality remain important despite the growing prominence of global languages.
Author : Carol M. Eastman
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
ISBN 13 : 9781853591679
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (916 download)
Download or read book Codeswitching written by Carol M. Eastman and published by Multilingual Matters. This book was released on 1992 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The twelve papers featured in this book focus on codeswitching as an urban language-contact phenomenon. Some papers seek to distinguish codeswitching from other contact phenomenon such as borrowing or language mixing, while others look at the effect codeswitching has on one's position in society. The papers discuss such topics as the politics of codeswitching, the role of using more than one language in social identity, attitudes toward multi-language use, and the way codeswitching may occur as a community norm.
Author : Keith Allan
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 9811564302
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (115 download)
Download or read book Dynamics of Language Changes written by Keith Allan and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-08-31 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the dynamics of language changes from sociolinguistic and historical linguistic perspectives. With in-depth case studies from all around the world, it uses diverse approaches across sociolinguistics and historical linguistics to answer questions such as: How and why do language changes begin?; how do language changes spread?; and how can they ultimately be explained? Each chapter explores a different component of language change, including typology, syntax, morphology, phonology, semantics, lexicology, discourse strategies, diachronic change, synchronic change, how the deafblind modify sign language, and the accommodation of language to song. This book presents a comprehensive analysis of the dynamics of language change over time, simultaneously advancing current research and suggesting new directions in sociolinguistic and historical linguistic approaches.
Author : Desmond Dale
Publisher :
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Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (821 download)
Download or read book Duramazwi written by Desmond Dale and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Josef J. Schmied
Publisher : Longman Publishing Group
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (91 download)
Download or read book English in Africa written by Josef J. Schmied and published by Longman Publishing Group. This book was released on 1991 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introducing the subject of English in Africa, this book examines the usage of English in education and in African literature. The range of language forms and the attitudes towards English are discussed. The author considers the influence of English on African languages.
Author : Pamela Downing
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027229031
Total Pages : 355 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)
Download or read book The Linguistics of Literacy written by Pamela Downing and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1992 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume grew out of the Seventeenth Annual University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Linguistics Symposium, which was held in Milwaukee on April 8-10, 1988. The theme of the conference was the relationship between linguistics and literacy. In this volume, a selection of papers are presented which cluster around three of the major themes that developed during the conference: the linguistic differences between written and spoken genres, the relationship between orthographic systems and phonology, and the psychology of orthography. The volume concludes with a solicited paper by Walter J. Ong which draws together the various strands considered in the other sections of the book and addresses the broader question of the social and psychological consequences of literacy.
