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Book Synopsis A Kalenjin Dialect Study by : Roger Van Otterloo
Download or read book A Kalenjin Dialect Study written by Roger Van Otterloo and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Historical Linguistics and the Comparative Study of African Languages by : Gerrit J. Dimmendaal
Download or read book Historical Linguistics and the Comparative Study of African Languages written by Gerrit J. Dimmendaal and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2011-06-08 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This advanced historical linguistics course book deals with the historical and comparative study of African languages. The first part functions as an elementary introduction to the comparative method, involving the establishment of lexical and grammatical cognates, the reconstruction of their historical development, techniques for the subclassification of related languages, and the use of language-internal evidence, more specifically the application of internal reconstruction. Part II addresses language contact phenomena and the status of language in a wider, cultural-historical and ecological context. Part III deals with the relationship between comparative linguistics and other disciplines. In this rich course book, the author presents valuable views on a number of issues in the comparative study of African languages, more specifically concerning genetic diversity on the African continent, the status of pidginised and creolised languages, language mixing, and grammaticalisation.
Book Synopsis The Historical Study of African Religion by : Terence O. Ranger
Download or read book The Historical Study of African Religion written by Terence O. Ranger and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1976 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book I Say to You written by Gabrielle Lynch and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2011-09-26 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2007 a disputed election in Kenya erupted into a two-month political crisis that led to the deaths of more than a thousand people and the displacement of almost seven hundred thousand. Much of the violence fell along ethnic lines, the principal perpetrators of which were the Kalenjin, who lashed out at other communities in the Rift Valley. What makes this episode remarkable compared to many other instances of ethnic violence is that the Kalenjin community is a recent construct: the group has only existed since the mid-twentieth century. Drawing on rich archival research and vivid oral testimony, I Say to You is a timely analysis of the creation, development, political relevance, and popular appeal of the Kalenjin identity as well as its violent potential. Uncovering the Kalenjin’s roots, Gabrielle Lynch examines the ways in which ethnic groups are socially constructed and renegotiated over time. She demonstrates how historical narratives of collective achievement, migration, injustice, and persecution constantly evolve. As a consequence, ethnic identities help politicians mobilize support and help ordinary people lay claim to space, power, and wealth. This kind of ethnic politics, Lynch reveals, encourages a sense of ethnic difference and competition, which can spiral into violent confrontation and retribution.
Book Synopsis Language and Dialect Atlas of Kenya by : Bernd Heine
Download or read book Language and Dialect Atlas of Kenya written by Bernd Heine and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Language Death by : Matthias Brenzinger
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.
Book Synopsis A Resource Handbook for African Languages by :
Download or read book A Resource Handbook for African Languages written by and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Multilingualism and Education in Africa by : Ruth W. Ndung’u
Download or read book Multilingualism and Education in Africa written by Ruth W. Ndung’u and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2014-10-16 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a must-read for every language teaching professional and researcher working in a multilingual context. Multilingualism and Education in Africa: The State of the State of the Art is an up-to-date exploration and wide-ranging review of the symbiotic relationship between multilingualism and education in Africa. The African continent is rich in languages. Most of her inhabitants are multilingual and many of the nations have embraced multilingual education. This book examines multilingualism in education from three broad perspectives: multilingualism and language in education policy in Africa; multilingualism as an educational resource in Africa; and attitudes and challenges of multilingualism and education in Africa. The book’s nineteen chapters discuss these three perspectives from East, West, Central and South Africa. All the contributors are leading authorities in multilingualism and education. The chapters combine a wide range of viewpoints based on theoretical, empirical and personal experiences. The reader is left with a deeper understanding of the unique features of multilingualism and education in Africa that have seldom been addressed by those who experience them first-hand. The book demonstrates successful practices in multilingualism and education; showing how African nations have determined what works for them without ignoring challenges such as policies on paper, attitudes towards African languages and limited resources. The benefits of multilingual education override the challenges. The book’s extensive coverage makes it an important resource for scholars and policy makers in the field of multilingualism and education. Overall, this book represents an important contribution to an important subject in education globally. The editors have provided an introductory overview to the book and commentaries on the three sections.
Book Synopsis A Conversational Analysis of Acholi by : Maren Rüsch
Download or read book A Conversational Analysis of Acholi written by Maren Rüsch and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-09-25 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Conversational Analysis of Acholi elucidates various interaction strategies for the Nilotic language Acholi. Based on detailed examples, Maren Rüsch links the structural organization of Acholi conversations to cultural features such as politeness, language socialization and narrations. Despite common claims of universality regarding the structuring of human languages by previous authors, the study shows that some Acholi strategies differ from other languages. The verbal and non-verbal practices displayed give an in-depth insight into speakers’ cognitive participation during interaction. On the basis of in-situ research in Uganda, including the collection of rich audio- and video-material, this volume provides an innovative approach to language documentation and description and constitutes a thorough conversation analytic study of an African language.
Book Synopsis Nilo-Saharan Language Studies by : Marvin Lionel Bender
Download or read book Nilo-Saharan Language Studies written by Marvin Lionel Bender and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Historical Linguistics by : Donald A. Ringe
Download or read book Historical Linguistics written by Donald A. Ringe and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-01-24 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This innovative textbook demonstrates the mutual relevance of historical linguistics and contemporary linguistics.
Book Synopsis Space, Text and Gender by : Henrietta Moore
Download or read book Space, Text and Gender written by Henrietta Moore and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1986 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dr Moore analyses the Marakwet through the relationship between organisation of household and gender relations in a changing society.
Book Synopsis Poverty and Wealth in East Africa by : Rhiannon Stephens
Download or read book Poverty and Wealth in East Africa written by Rhiannon Stephens and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2022-10-24 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Poverty and Wealth in East Africa Rhiannon Stephens offers a conceptual history of how people living in eastern Uganda have sustained and changed their ways of thinking about wealth and poverty over the past two thousand years. This history serves as a powerful reminder that colonialism and capitalism did not introduce economic thought to this region and demonstrates that even in contexts of relative material equality between households, people invested intellectual energy in creating new ways to talk about the poor and the rich. Stephens uses an interdisciplinary approach to write this history for societies without written records before the nineteenth century. She reconstructs the words people spoke in different eras using the methods of comparative historical linguistics, overlaid with evidence from archaeology, climate science, oral traditions, and ethnography. Demonstrating the dynamism of people’s thinking about poverty and wealth in East Africa long before colonial conquest, Stephens challenges much of the received wisdom about the nature and existence of economic and social inequality in the region’s deeper past.
Book Synopsis Language Teaching Techniques by : Irene Adiel Mollel
Download or read book Language Teaching Techniques written by Irene Adiel Mollel and published by IPR Journals and Book Publishers. This book was released on 2022-12-27 with total page 71 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: TOPICS IN THE BOOK How Communicative Language Teaching Method Activate Students Learning Processes in Secondary Schools in Tanzania The Morphosyntactic Features and Tense Aspect Marking in Samor of Baringo County, Kenya. A Morpho- Phonosyntactic Study Identifying and Overcoming Challenges in Teaching and Learning Pronunciation in an Efl Class: An Experience from Cameroon
Download or read book Studies in Language written by and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 634 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Marakwet of Kenya by : B. E. Kipkorir
Download or read book The Marakwet of Kenya written by B. E. Kipkorir and published by East African Publishers. This book was released on 2008 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Marakwet of Kenya is a study of a sub-group of the greater Kalenjin community, the majority of whom live in the Rift Valley Province of Kenya. It is an excellent introduction to the study of an African community in transition, both from its belief systems and in its broad structure and organisation. This work is invaluable to any student of comparative studies; whether in sociology, anthropology, economics or history.
Book Synopsis Language Standardization in Africa by : Norbert Cyffer
Download or read book Language Standardization in Africa written by Norbert Cyffer and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beiträge in Deutsch, Englisch und Französisch