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Les Langues Africaines Et Creoles Face A Leur Avenir
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Book Synopsis The Oxford Handbook of African Languages by : Rainer Vossen
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of African Languages written by Rainer Vossen and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-03-19 with total page 1104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a comprehensive overview of current research in African languages, drawing on insights from anthropological linguistics, typology, historical and comparative linguistics, and sociolinguistics. Africa is believed to host at least one third of the world's languages, usually classified into four phyla - Niger-Congo, Afro-Asiatic, Nilo-Saharan, and Khoisan - which are then subdivided into further families and subgroupings. This volume explores all aspects of research in the field, beginning with chapters that cover the major domains of grammar and comparative approaches. Later parts provide overviews of the phyla and subfamilies, alongside grammatical sketches of eighteen representative African languages of diverse genetic affiliation. The volume additionally explores multiple other topics relating to African languages and linguistics, with a particular focus on extralinguistic issues: language, cognition, and culture, including colour terminology and conversation analysis; language and society, including language contact and endangerment; language and history; and language and orature. This wide-ranging handbook will be a valuable reference for scholars and students in all areas of African linguistics and anthropology, and for anyone interested in descriptive, documentary, typological, and comparative linguistics.
Book Synopsis Les langues africaines et créoles face à leur avenir by : Isidore Ndaywel è Nziem
Download or read book Les langues africaines et créoles face à leur avenir written by Isidore Ndaywel è Nziem and published by Editions L'Harmattan. This book was released on 2003 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A la question : les langues africaines et créoles sont-elles menacées dans leur existence et leur avenir proche est-il assombri par la mondialisation, l'ouvrage suivant répond par la négative en soulignant le fait que cela n'a pas été le cas avec les indépendances contrairement à ce que certains avaient alors prédit. L'avenir de toute langue dépend, pour une bonne part de ceux qui la parlent mais il est nécessaire de l'aménager si on veut lui permettre de faire face à des fonctions nouvelles.
Book Synopsis African Languages in a Digital Age by : Don Osborn
Download or read book African Languages in a Digital Age written by Don Osborn and published by IDRC. This book was released on 2010 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With increasing numbers of computers and diffusion of the internet around the world, localisation of the technology, and the content it carries, into the many languages people speak is becoming an ever more important area for discussion and action. Localisation, simply put, includes translation and cultural adaptation of user interfaces and software applications, as well as the creation and translation of internet content in diverse languages. It is essential in making information and communication technology more accessible to the populations of the poorer countries, increasing its relevance to their lives, needs, and aspirations, and ultimately in bridging the 'digital divide'.
Book Synopsis Language Evolution by : Salikoko S. Mufwene
Download or read book Language Evolution written by Salikoko S. Mufwene and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2008-03-31 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Languages are constantly changing. New words are added to the English language every year, either borrowed or coined, and there is often railing against the 'decline' of the language by public figures. Some languages, such as French and Finnish, have academies to protect them against foreign imports. Yet languages are species-like constructs, which evolve naturally over time. Migration, imperialism, and globalization have blurred boundaries between many of them, producing new ones (such as creoles) and driving some to extinction. This book examines the processes by which languages change, from the macroecological perspective of competition and natural selection. In a series of chapters, Salikoko Mufwene examines such themes as: - natural selection in language - the actuation question and the invisible hand that drives evolution - multilingualism and language contact - language birth and language death - the emergence of Creoles and Pidgins - the varying impacts of colonization and globalization on language vitality This comprehensive examination of the organic evolution of language will be essential reading for graduate and senior undergraduate students, and for researchers on the social dynamics of language variation and change, language vitality and death, and even the origins of linguistic diversity.
Book Synopsis Journal of African Languages and Linguistics by :
Download or read book Journal of African Languages and Linguistics written by and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Globalization and Language Vitality by : Cécile B. Vigouroux
Download or read book Globalization and Language Vitality written by Cécile B. Vigouroux and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2008-11-05 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book discusses the effects of globalization on languages in Africa. In contrast to previous studies, the contributors examine whether or not globalization is affecting African languages in the same ways and at the same rate in different countries, and how local experiences of language change vary from place to place. Rather than seeing English as the 'killer language' par excellence, the contributors probe ways in which languages are being used side by side to complement each other in some contexts while competing against European colonial languages in others. The result is a diverse canvas of language vitality in the African context, including matters of endangerment and loss, through the lense of globalization in its various interpretations. This book is a must read for students and researchers interested in language change and death and in the fate of European languages in the rest of the world.
Download or read book Boundless Faith written by Robert Wuthnow and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2009-05-26 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Boundless Faith, the first book to look systematically at American Christianity in relation to globalization, Robert Wuthnow shows that American Christianity is increasingly influenced by globalization and is, in turn, playing a larger role in other countries and in U.S. policies and programs abroad. These changes, he argues, can be seen in the growth of support at home for missionaries and churches in other countries and in the large number of Americans who participate in short-term volunteer efforts abroad. These outreaches include building orphanages, starting microbusinesses, and setting up computer networks. Drawing on a comprehensive survey that was conducted for this book, as well as several hundred in-depth interviews with church leaders, Wuthnow refutes several prevailing stereotypes: that U.S. churches have turned away from the global church and overseas missions, that congregations only look inward, and that the growing voice of religion in areas of foreign policy is primarily evangelical. This fresh and revealing book encourages Americans to pay attention to the grass-roots mechanisms by which global ties are created and sustained.
Book Synopsis International African Bibliography by :
Download or read book International African Bibliography written by and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Language Problems & Language Planning by :
Download or read book Language Problems & Language Planning written by and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Itinéraires et trajectoires, du discours littéraire à l'anthropologie by : Pius Ngandu Nkashama
Download or read book Itinéraires et trajectoires, du discours littéraire à l'anthropologie written by Pius Ngandu Nkashama and published by Editions L'Harmattan. This book was released on 2008 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Historical Dictionary of Gabon by : David E. Gardinier
Download or read book Historical Dictionary of Gabon written by David E. Gardinier and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The country of Gabon, located in equatorial Africa on the Atlantic coast, gained its independence from France on August 17, 1960. Its strong economic base in mining, forestry, and especially petroleum has made Gabon one of the most prosperous nations in the area. It also boasts the longest serving African head of state in President El Hadj Omar Bongo Ondimba, who, having won election after election, has been in power since 1967. The third edition of the Historical Dictionary of Gabon provides crucial information about the country's important persons, places, events, and institutions. This is done through the use of several hundred cross-referenced dictionary entries, an introductory essay, a chronology, a list of acronyms and abbreviations, maps, and a comprehensive bibliography.
Book Synopsis Actes du quatrième Congrès international de l'Association des écrivains de la Caraïbe by : Roger Toumson
Download or read book Actes du quatrième Congrès international de l'Association des écrivains de la Caraïbe written by Roger Toumson and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Revue du C.A.M.E.S. by : CAMES (Advisory group)
Download or read book Revue du C.A.M.E.S. written by CAMES (Advisory group) and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Revi Kiltir Kreol written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis International Journal of the Sociology of Language by :
Download or read book International Journal of the Sociology of Language written by and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bulletin of Francophone Africa written by and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Chomsky on Democracy & Education by : Noam Chomsky
Download or read book Chomsky on Democracy & Education written by Noam Chomsky and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
