Author: Publisher:
ISBN: 9789987120116
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 673
Book Description
Concise Trilingual English-French-Kiswahili Dictionary
Author: Publisher:
ISBN: 9789987120116
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 673
Book Description
Joke-Performance in Africa
Author: Ignatius ChukwumahPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351668889
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 329
Book Description
Jokes have always been part of African culture, but never have they been so blended with the strains and gains of the contemporary African world as today. Joke-Performance in Africa describes and analyses the diverse aesthetics, forms, and media of jokes and their performance and shows how African jokes embody the anxieties of the time and space in which they are enacted. The book considers the pervasive phenomenon of jokes and their performance across Africa in such forms as local jests, street jokes, cartoons, mchongoano, ewhe-eje, stand-up comedy, internet sex jokes, and ‘comicast’ transmitted via modern technology media such as the TV, CDs, DVDs, the internet platforms of YouTube, Facebook, and other social arenas, as well as live performances. Countries represented are Egypt, Kenya, Malawi, Morocco, Nigeria, and Zambia, covering the North, West, East and Southern Africa. The book explores the description of the joke form from various perspectives, ranging from critical discourse analysis, interviews, humour theories, psychoanalysis, the postcolony and technauriture, to the interactive dramaturgy of joke-performances, irrespective of media and modes of performance. Containing insightful contributions from leading African scholars, the book acquaints readers with detailed descriptions of the diverse aesthetics of contemporary African jokes, thereby contributing to the current understanding of joke-performance in Africa. It will appeal to students and scholars of African studies, popular culture, theatre, performance studies and literary studies.
Dictionary of Dictionaries and Eminent Encyclopedias
Author: Thomas KabdeboPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
Enlarged by some 50 percent and equipped with more comprehensive name and subject indexes, the second edition of this unique guide contains bibliographic and descriptive annotations for 8,000 dictionaries. It features 1,500 additional bilingual works, 400 new subject categories, and all the major electronic dictionaries produced in English. While the primary emphasis is on language dictionaries, subject dictionaries on topics as varied as ceramics, bookbinding, and theatre as well as dictionaries issued by international bodies and agencies are included. Covering all the world's languages, works may be bilingual, monolingual, or multilingual as long as there is an English element.
Dictionary of Dictionaries
Author: Thomas KabdeboPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
International Books in Print
Author: Mgombato
Author: Joseph MwalonyaPublisher:
ISBN: 9783896457004
Category : Digo language
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
British Books in Print
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catalogs, Publishers'
Languages : en
Pages : 1806
Book Description
World Dictionaries in Print 1983
Author: Publisher: R. R. Bowker
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 608
Book Description
World Dictionaries in Print
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 608
Book Description
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