Download or read book African Languages Langues Africaines written by Various Authors and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-18 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume 1 of African Languages include articles originally published in 1975 and written in French and English on educational, literary, cultural, historical and socio-linguistic aspects of language in Africa, as well as descriptive and comparative studies. Among others there are chapters on African oral literature, the standardization of languages and education in Nigeria and a description of Shona spelling.
Download or read book African Languages Langues Africaines written by Kahombo Mateene and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-20 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume 5 (2) of African Languages originally published in 1979, is a special issue focussing on languages and education in Africa. There are chapters on African language education from a socio-linguistic perspective, the problems of bi-lingualism and multi-lingualism in Zaire and small languages in primary education.
Download or read book African Languages Langues Africaines written by P. Akụjụobi Nwachukwu and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-18 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume 4 of African Languages includes articles originally published in 1978, written in French and English on educational, literary, cultural, historical and socio-linguistic aspects of language in Africa, as well as descriptive and comparative studies. Among others there are chapters on lexical innovation in Zambian languages, Portuguese creole of Sénégal, the application of ethics in Hausa didactic poetry.
Download or read book African Languages Langues Africaines written by P. Ak?j?obi Nwachukwu and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-29 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume 3 of African Languages includes articles originally published in 1977, written in French and English on educational, literary, cultural, historical and socio-linguistic aspects of language in Africa, as well as descriptive and comparative studies. Among others there are chapters on the national language issue in Africa (Akan in Ghana), a socio-linguistic case study of the Hausa language in Nigeria and assimiliation and lexical coinages in Igbo.
Download or read book Langues cultures et d veloppement en Afrique written by Henry Tourneux and published by KARTHALA Editions. This book was released on 2008 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Depuis le rapport de la Banque mondiale sur le développement (2004), la réussite ou l'échec des projets se voient explicitement corrélés au degré d'implication des populations " pauvres " concernées dans le processus de prise de décision relatif à leur mise en œuvre. Il est donc capital de se demander en quelles langues ces " pauvres " peuvent faire entendre leur voix. Généralement, la pauvreté s'accompagne de ce que l'on peut appeler une " dépendance communicationnelle ", accentuée par la fragmentation linguistique due au fort multilinguisme de la plupart des pays africains. Cette dépendance n'affecte pas uniquement les groupes linguistiques très minoritaires ; elle reflète la marginalisation de toutes les langues africaines par rapport aux langues officielles d'origine européenne. Si la maîtrise des ressources communicationnelles constitue un critère essentiel pour la durabilité du développement local, comment peut-il se faire que la question linguistique en général, et la langue localement principale en particulier (celle que la communauté locale emploie le plus), soient ignorées ou voient leur rôle minimisé, comme le démontre le silence qu'observent sur ce sujet les spécialistes de la communication pour le développement ainsi que la majorité des sociologues de l'éducation ? Deux positions se font face lorsqu'il s'agit de résoudre le problème de la fragmentation linguistique. La première recommande d'employer une langue qui transcende cette fragmentation ; ce peut être la langue léguée par la colonisation, ou une langue africaine véhiculaire - les tenants du panafricanisme vont même jusqu'à prôner l'emploi d'une seule langue africaine à l'échelle du continent. L'autre option est celle de la durabilité communicationnelle, qui implique la maîtrise locale des questions d'intérêt local, exprimée par l'usage d'une langue locale ; elle implique également l'égalité en matière de communication et l'égalité dans l'accès à l'information. Si les experts admettent d'emblée la première option (n'allant toutefois pas jusqu'à préconiser l'emploi d'une langue véhiculaire africaine, en général), ils écartent a priori la seconde, qui les dépouillerait de leur pouvoir linguistique. L'écoute des " pauvres " dans leur propre langue et suivant leur propre code culturel, permet une nouvelle compréhension des problèmes que leur cause la fragilité de leurs conditions de vie ; elle permet encore de comprendre leur réactivité d'un point de vue englobant (holistique) et non pas sectoriel (purement technique).
Download or read book Portugais et langues africaines written by Margarida Maria Taddoni Petter and published by KARTHALA Editions. This book was released on 2011 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Le contact linguistique est le thème de ces Etudes afro-brésiliennes. Les six chapitres qui composent l'ouvrage discutent de propositions théoriques et épistémologiques qui permettent de mieux expliquer le contact des langues au Brésil. Ils traitent des conséquences du contact grammatical, tant au niveau syntaxique qu'au niveau phonologique, et examinent les effets du contact linguistique et culturel sur la sémantique et le lexique d'origine africaine dans le portugais parlé au Brésil. Les structures du portugais brésilien qui le distinguent du portugais européen peuvent être associées historiquement au contact massif de langues qui ont marqué les premiers siècles de l'histoire sociolinguistique du Brésil. Parmi ces structures, quelques-unes ont atteint un degré élevé de généralisation, touchant toutes les variétés de la langue parlée, y compris le portugais brésilien standard, tandis que d'autres sont restées cantonnées à ce qu'on appelle le portugais populaire brésilien, un ensemble de variétés qui incluent les parlers ruraux, depuis toujours plus réfractaires à l'influence de la norme urbaine. Cet ouvrage vise aussi à apporter une contribution supplémentaire à la mise en valeur de l'apport africain à la langue et à la culture brésiliennes et à susciter de nouvelles études sur les contacts de langues au Brésil.
Download or read book Building Capacity Using TEFL and African Languages as Development oriented Literacy Tools written by M. Mutaka and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2008-02-15 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: " ""Building Capacity promotes the vision that the teaching of African languages can best achieve its aim of boosting the economic and cultural development of the Africans if they are made to work in synergy with a revamping of the course contents of international languages that will be taught within the frame of a development-oriented literacy curriculum. Great emphasis is put on the oral skills in the use of African languages as they are to serve as a link between the community and the school for the ultimate revitalization of the positive aspects of African cultures in a world beset by globalization. The book is supplemented with a sample of texts in the appendix that are meant to be a bridge between formal texts taught in classrooms and literacy texts that can raise the genuine interests of the local populations in that they address their immediate needs. Among the possible topics language teachers are encouraged to explore in their classes are those concerning economic development, but also such issues as health, education, the environment, food security, and conflict resolution. """"In the face of the growing interest in the use of African Languages by Africans as symbols of personal and cultural identity and as means of empowering the rural communities in the entreprise of national development,the need for a methodologically appropriate manual to guide the teaching and learning of African languages becomes urgent.This book is a timely response, predicated on a policy of the symbiotic use of African languages along with partner (foreign-official) languages, to attain a balanced level of economic and socio-cultural development.It is based on a compendium of well- thought-out principles geared towards a rapid acquisition of written and oral language skills that are congruent with and reflect the socio-cultural and economic concerns of the linguistic community."""" Beban Sammy Chumbow, Professor of Linguistics, University of Yaounde I """"Among the numerous proposals in this book is the necessity for Africans, and I would add, for the communities of Asia and Latin America, to re-think the contents of their language courses and assign them an objective which aims at the integral development of their communities. It is indeed imperative that these courses reflect clear objectives of seeking social, cultural, and economic developments that harmonize with African, Asian, and Latin American values that are deep rooted in their respective various cultures."""" Jean-Pierre Angenot Professor of Linguistics, Federal University of Rond?nia, Porto Velho, Brazil."""
Download or read book The Oxford Guide to the Atlantic Languages of West Africa written by Friederike Lüpke and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024-11-07 with total page 785 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents the first book-length overview of the Atlantic languages, a small family of languages spoken mainly on the Atlantic coast of West Africa. Languages in this area have been used in diverse multilingual societies with intense language contact for the whole of their known history, and their genealogical relatedness and the impact of language contact on their lexicon and grammar have been widely debated. The book is divided into four parts. The first provides an introduction to language ecologies in the area and includes two accounts of the genealogical classification of Atlantic languages. Chapters in the second part offer grammatical overviews of individual languages, including the most important non-Atlantic contact languages (Casamance Creole and Mandinka), while the third part explores Atlantic languages from a typological perspective, with chapters that explore formal and semantic aspects of their nominal classification systems, nominalization strategies, their rich system of verbal extensions, and the stem-initial consonant mutation that is attested in a subset of languages. The final part of the book investigates Atlantic languages in their social environments, including the creation of creole identities, secret languages, Ajami writing practices, language acquisition, the spread and use of Fula as a lingua franca, digital language practices, and language ideologies. The volume is an essential tool for linguists interested in the languages of West Africa, language history and classification, patterns of language use in Atlantic societies, and typology and language contact more broadly.
Download or read book Sociolinguistics in African Contexts written by Augustin Emmanuel Ebongue and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-05-11 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume offers a new perspective on sociolinguistics in Africa. Eschewing the traditional approach which looks at the interaction between European and African languages in the wake of colonialism, this book turns its focus to the social dynamics of African languages and African societies. Divided into two sections, the book offers insight into the crucial topics such as: language vitality and endangerment, the birth of ‘new languages’, a sociolinguistics of the city, language contact and language politics. It spans the continent from Algeria to South Africa, Guinea-Bissau to Kenya and addresses the following broad themes: Language variation, contact and changeThe dynamics of urban, rural and youth languagesPolicy and practice This book provides an alternative to the Eurocentric view of sociolinguistic dynamics in Africa, and will make an ideal read or supplemental textbook for scholars and students in the field/disciplines of African languages and linguistics, and those interested in southern theory or ‘sociolinguistics in the margins’.
Download or read book Selected Papers in Mother Tongue Education Etudes en P dagogie de la Langue Maternelle written by Gilles Gagné and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2020-02-10 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No detailed description available for "Selected Papers in Mother Tongue Education / Etudes en Pédagogie de la Langue Maternelle".
Download or read book Proceedings of the 7th World Congress of African Linguistics Buea 17 21 August 2012 written by G. Atindogbe and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2016-12-19 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a composite of 40 purely scientific and peer-reviewed papers presented during the Seventh World Congress of African Linguistics (WOCAL7) at the University of Buea, Cameroon, in 2012. The different chapters of the volume fall within the scope of African languages in relation to linguistics and other related disciplines, where a varied range of theoretical examinations, investigations and/or discussions as well as pure description of aspects of language are offered. For the purpose of clarity and easy accessibility of the content, the chapters are further subcategorized into nine sections, which include: Borrowing, Discourse Analysis, Historical Linguistics, Intercultural Communication, Language Documentation, Language in Education, Morpho-syntax, Phonetics and Phonology, and Sociolinguistics.
Download or read book La qualification dans les langues africaines written by Holger Tröbs and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Manual of Romance Languages in Africa written by Ursula Reutner and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2023-12-18 with total page 880 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With more than two thousand languages spread over its territory, multilingualism is a common reality in Africa. The main official languages of most African countries are Indo-European, in many instances Romance. As they were primarily brought to Africa in the era of colonization, the areas discussed in this volume are thirty-five states that were once ruled by Belgium, France, Italy, Portugal, or Spain, and the African regions still belonging to three of them. Twenty-six states are presented in relation to French, four to Italian, six to Portuguese, and two to Spanish. They are considered in separate chapters according to their sociolinguistic situation, linguistic history, external language policy, linguistic characteristics, and internal language policy. The result is a comprehensive overview of the Romance languages in modern-day Africa. It follows a coherent structure, offers linguistic and sociolinguistic information, and illustrates language contact situations, power relations, as well as the cross-fertilization and mutual enrichment emerging from the interplay of languages and cultures in Africa.
Download or read book Protecting Minority Language Rights Prot ger les Droits des Langues written by George Ngwane and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2023-05-24 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this succinct, well-framed work, noted activist and scholar George Ngwane tackles the issue of minority language rights with alacrity. The book will offer those interested in linguistic rights insights into the dilemmas facing African countries, set against the backdrop of developments in the international framework for the promotion of linguistic rights. In drawing on Cameroonian policies of which he remains a key influencer, George Ngwane offers practical insights and bold solutions that should prove insightful for those tasked with determining the intricacies by which African development potential can be realised through measures that promote both the identities and the future socio-economic and development trajectories of their countries.
Download or read book Africa written by and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 1108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes Proceedings of the Executive council and List of members, also section "Review of books".
Download or read book Language and National Identity in Africa written by Andrew Simpson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2008-02-07 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on language, culture, and identity in nineteen countries in Africa. Leading specialists, mainly from Africa, describe national linguistic and political histories, assess the status of majority and minority languages, and consider the role of language in ethnic conflict.
Download or read book Practical Orthography of African Languages written by International African Institute and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-27 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first edition of the Practical Orthography of African Languages was a best-seller and this and the following volume re-issues the second edition, in English and French. Originally published in 1930, it provided an invaluable solution to the problem of finding a practical and uniform method of writing African languages. The volume is bound with a small pamphlet which analyses the information on the Semitic and cushitic languages of Eritrea, Ethiopia and the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. Related languages are grouped together into larger sections which have some linguistic significance. A further pamphlet, the Distribution of the Nilotic and Nilo-Hamitic Languages of Africa, describes the relationship between languages and dialects. For each language, data are given on locality, number of speakers, use for educational and religious purposes and the extent of vernacular literature. The linguistic material is set out in phonetic script with tone marks, though reference is made to current standard orthoraphies where these exist.
