The Cambridge handbook of African linguistics


edited by H. Ekkehard Wolff.
Bok Engelsk 2019 · Electronic books.

Medvirkende
Wolff, Ekkehard, (editor.)
Omfang
1 online resource (xxxi, 803 pages) : : digital, PDF file(s).
Utgave
1st ed.
Opplysninger
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 27 May 2019).. - African linguistics : conceptions and scope / H. Ekkehard Wolff -- African linguistics in Europe / Arvi Hurskainen, Roland Kiessling, Nina Pawlak & Alexander Zheltov -- African linguistics in north and so-called francophone Africa / Abderrahman el Aissati & Yamina el Kirat el Allame, Philip Ngessimo Mathe Mutaka -- African linguistics in north-eastern and so-called anglophone Africa / Akinbiyi Akinlabi, Bruce Connell, Angelika Jakobi, Amani Lusekelo, Ronny Meyer, Marie-Claude Simeone-Senelle, Wolbert Smidt -- African linguistics in so-called lusophone and hispanophone Africa, and in southern Africa / Sonja Bosch & Inge Kosch, Anne-Maria Fehn -- African linguistics in the Americas, Asia, and Australia / G. Tucker Childs, Margarida Petter, Shigeki Kaji, John Hajek, Sun Xiaomeng, Yang Chul-Joon -- Comparative African linguistics / Gerrit J. Dimmendaal -- A typological and areal perspective on African languages / Bernd Heine -- Niger-Congo linguistic features and typology / Larry M. Hyman, with Nicholas Rolle, Hannah Sande, Emily Clem, Peter S.E. Jenks, Florian Lionnet, John Merrill, Nicholas Baier -- Afroasiatic linguistic features and typologies / Ronny Meyer & H. Ekkehard Wolff -- Linguistic features and typologies in languages commonly referred to as 'Nilo-Saharan' / Gerrit J. Dimmendaal, with Colleen Ahland, Angelika Jakobi, Constance Kutsch Lojenga -- Linguistic features and typologies in languages commonly referred to as 'Khoisan' / Alena Witzlack-Makarevich & Hirosi Nakagawa -- Sociocultural and political settings of language in Africa / Alamin Mazrui -- In and out of Africa : the sociolinguistics of European and Asian languages in Africa and of the African diaspora / Rajend Mesthrie -- Language endangerment and language documentation in Africa / Friederike Lüpke -- Situated language use in Africa / Sigurd D'hondt -- Special-purpose registers of language in Africa / Alice Mitchell & Ayu'nwi N. Neba -- African languages in urban contexts / Andrea Hollington & Nico Nassenstein -- African languages and mobile communication : between constraint and creativity / Ana Deumert, with Ivan Panović, Dorothy Agyepong, David Barasa -- Multilingualism and education in Africa / Kathleen Heugh -- Intellectualisation of African languages : past, present and future / Russell H. Kaschula & Dion Nkomo -- African languages and human language technologies / Justus C. Roux & H. Steve Ndinga-Koumba-Binza.. - This book provides an in-depth and comprehensive state-of-the-art study of 'African languages' and 'language in Africa' since its beginnings as a 'colonial science' at the turn of the twentieth century in Europe. Compiled by 56 internationally renowned scholars, this ground breaking study looks at past and current research on 'African languages' and 'language in Africa' under the impact of paradigmatic changes from 'colonial' to 'postcolonial' perspectives. It addresses current trends in the study of the role and functions of language, African and other, in pre- and postcolonial African societies. Highlighting the central role that the 'language factor' plays in postcolonial transformation processes of sociocultural modernization and economic development, it also addresses more recent, particularly urban, patterns of communication, and outlines applied dimensions of digitalization and human language technology.
Emner
Sjanger
Dewey
496
ISBN
1-108-28399-3

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