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Category : African languages
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
Ilorin Journal of Language and Literature
Author: African Literature
Author: Jonathan P. SmithePublisher: Nova Publishers
ISBN: 9781590332900
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
African literature, like the continent itself is enormous and diverse. East Africa's literature is different from West Africa's which is quite different from South Africa's which has different influences on it than North Africa's. Africa's literature is based on a widespread heritage of oral literature, some of which has now been recorded. Arabic influence can be detected as well as European, especially French and English. Legends, myths, proverbs, riddles and folktales form the mother load of the oral literature. This book presents an overview of African literature as well as a comprehensive bibliography, primarily of English language sources. Accessed by subject, author and title indexes.
Black African Literature in English, 1997-1999
Author: Bernth LindforsPublisher: James Currey Publishers
ISBN: 9780852555750
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description
This volume lists the work produced on anglophone black African literature between 1997 and 1999. This bibliographic work is a continuation of the highly acclaimed earlier volumes compiled by Bernth Lindfors. Containing about 10,000 entries, some of which are annotated to identify the authors discussed, it covers books, periodical articles, papers in edited collections and selective coverage of other relevant sources.
Readings in Language and Literature
Author: Lekan OyeleyePublisher:
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Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
A compendium of scholarship on the English language and literature in the African, and especially Nigerian, contexts. Topics addressed include multilingualism and national development, the influence of Yoruba on secondary school English in Nigeria, humour in Achebe's Anthills of the Savannah, and the tragic hero characterisation of Ola Rotimi.
Ekpoma Journal of Languages and Literary Studies
Author: Humour Theory and Stylistic Enquiry
Author: Taiwo Oloruntoba-OjuPublisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3031403878
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
This edited book brings together scholarly chapters on linguistic aspects of humour in literary and non-literary domains and contexts in different parts of the world. Previous scholarly engagements and theoretical postulations on humour and the comic provide veritable resources for reexamining the relationship between linguistic elements and comic sensations on the one hand, and the validity of interpretive humour stylistics on the other hand. Renowned Stylistics scholars, such as Michael Toolan, who writes the volume’s foreword against the backdrop of nearly four decades of scholarly engagement with stylistics, and Katie Wales, who in this volume engages with Charles Dickens, one of the most eminent satirists in English literature, as well as many other European and African authors who have worked ceaselessly in the area of humour and language, weigh in on the topic of language and humour in this volume. Together, they provide a variety of interesting perspectives on the topic, deploying different textual sources from different media and from different regions of the world. Part of the book’s offering includes integrative stylistic approaches to humour in African, European and American written texts, examinations of social media and political humour in Nigeria, Cameroon and Zimbabwe, pragmatics and humorous stance-taking, incongruity as comedy in works of fiction, and a unified levels of linguistic analysis approach to the investigation of humour. This book will be of interest to academics and students of Linguistics, Stylistics, Communications and Media Studies, and Humour Studies. Taiwo Oloruntoba-Oju is a Professor in the Department of English at the University of Ilorin in Nigeria
The Journal of Language and Literature Teaching
Author: Language, Education, and Society in a Changing World
Author: Tina HickeyPublisher: Multilingual Matters
ISBN: 9781853593154
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
This book addresses many of the issues facing language teachers, researchers and policy makers in a world where languages are becoming extinct at an alarming rate and are frequently the focus for dispute and conflict.
Convergence: English and Nigerian Languages
Author: Ozo-mekuri NdimelePublisher: African Books Collective
ISBN: 9785416496
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 922
Book Description
The present volume, which is the 5th in the Nigerian Linguists Festschrift Series, is devoted to Professor Munzali A. Jibril, a celebrated icon in university administration, and an erudite Professor of English Linguistics. The title of this special edition was specifically chosen to crown Professor Jibril s academic prowess in both English and indigenous Nigerian languages, and to mark and laud his official departure from active university lectureship. 72 assessed papers are included from the many submitted. Papers cover the main theme of the volume, i.e. the interaction between English and indigenous Nigerian languages, and there are a number of papers on other secular areas of linguistics such as: language and history, language planning and policy, language documentation, language engineering, lexicography, translation, gender studies, language acquisition, language teaching and learning, pragmatics, discourse and conversational analysis, and literature in English and African languages. There is also a rich section devoted to the majwor traditional fields of linguistics - phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics.
Interdisciplinarity and Transdisciplinarity : Mapping the Episteme in Language and Literature
Author: Blossom N. Fondo Publisher: Miraclaire Publishing
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Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
... this collection ponders on the ways language and literature have integrated other disciplines and how these disciplines have imprinted themselves on these two. It constitutes a diverse and rich compendium on what happens when language and literature not only reach out to each other but to other disciplines as well. It is thus a concrete appraisal of the interactions amongst and between disciplines. Nfor Sessekou Professor Edward Oben Ako