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Publisher: Odile Jacob
ISBN: 2738172911
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 321

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Author: Rodney Ball
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1317624912
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 187

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The French-Speaking World is an accessible textbook that offers students the opportunity to explore for themselves a wide range of sociolinguistic issues relating to the French language and its role in the world. This new edition has been fully revised to reflect the many political and social changes of the last 15 years, including the impact of technology on language change. It continues to combine text with practical exercises and discussion questions to stimulate readers to think for themselves and to tackle specific problems. Key features of this book: Informative and comprehensive: covers a wide range of current issues Practical: contains a variety of graded exercises and tasks plus an index of terms Topical and contemporary: deals with current situations and provides up-to-date illustrative material Thought-provoking: encourages students to reflect and research for themselves The French-Speaking World is the ideal textbook for undergraduate students who have a sound practical knowledge of French but who have little or no knowledge of linguistics or sociolinguistics.

Author: Augustin Emmanuel Ebongue
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319496115
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 349

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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’.

Author: M. Epstein
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230270735
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1512

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The classic reference work that provides annually updated information on the countries of the world.

Author: UNESCO
Publisher: UNESCO Publishing
ISBN: 9231028154
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 760

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Volume V of the History of Humanity is concerned with the 'early modern' period: the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. It gives an extensive overview of this crucial stage in the rise of the West as well as examining the development of cultures and societies elsewhere. Structure The volume is divided into two main parts. The first is thematic, discussing the geography, chronology and sociology of cultural change in this period. The second is regional, less theoretical and more empirical; it stresses cultural diversity, the links between different activities in a given region, and the importance of social contexts and local circumstances. Each chapter has a bibliography which directs the reader to sources of further information. The volume is extensively illustrated with line drawings and plates, and is comprehensively indexed

Author: Mortimer Epstein
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230270700
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1516

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The classic reference work that provides annually updated information on the countries of the world.

Author: V. Hélénon
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230118755
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 352

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This is the first book-length study of the French Caribbean presence in Africa, and serves as a unique contribution to the field of African Diaspora and Colonial studies. By using administrative records, newspapers, and interviews, it explores the French Caribbean presence in the colonial administration in Africa before World War II.

Author: Ursula Reutner
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110626179
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 662

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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.

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Category : Political science
Languages : en
Pages : 1782

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Author: L. H. Gann
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521078597
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 564

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A comprehensive study of recent African history, examining the political, social, and economic effects of colonialism.