Author: Sam Usadolo
Publisher: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing
ISBN: 9783846586457
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
This book is an analysis of the social motivation for code-switching by Edo-speaking people of Edo State, Nigeria. The analysis is based on real-life communicative encounters obseved over a period of time. The book highlights the different reasons informing the way Edo-speaking code-swtch. Some of the reasons, among others, are to accomodate other linguistic groups, to index modernity, multiple identities, for cultural deference, use lexicon of other domains and use in discussing restricted cultural issues such as taboos and sexual overtones.
Motivations for Code-switching by Edo-speaking People in Nigeria
Author: Sam Usadolo
Publisher: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing
ISBN: 9783846586457
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
This book is an analysis of the social motivation for code-switching by Edo-speaking people of Edo State, Nigeria. The analysis is based on real-life communicative encounters obseved over a period of time. The book highlights the different reasons informing the way Edo-speaking code-swtch. Some of the reasons, among others, are to accomodate other linguistic groups, to index modernity, multiple identities, for cultural deference, use lexicon of other domains and use in discussing restricted cultural issues such as taboos and sexual overtones.
Publisher: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing
ISBN: 9783846586457
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
This book is an analysis of the social motivation for code-switching by Edo-speaking people of Edo State, Nigeria. The analysis is based on real-life communicative encounters obseved over a period of time. The book highlights the different reasons informing the way Edo-speaking code-swtch. Some of the reasons, among others, are to accomodate other linguistic groups, to index modernity, multiple identities, for cultural deference, use lexicon of other domains and use in discussing restricted cultural issues such as taboos and sexual overtones.
An Examination of the Social Motivations for Code-switching by Edo- Speaking People of Edo State, Nigeria
Author: Sam Osadolo
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bini (African people)
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bini (African people)
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
Yoruba - English code-switching in Nigeria
Endangered Languages in Africa
Author: Matthias Brenzinger
Publisher: R. Koppe
ISBN:
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
Publisher: R. Koppe
ISBN:
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
The Signs of Language Revisited
Author: Karen Emmorey
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 1135669007
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 525
Book Description
The burgeoning of research on signed language during the last two decades has had a major influence on several disciplines concerned with mind and language, including linguistics, neuroscience, cognitive psychology, child language acquisition, sociolinguistics, bilingualism, and deaf education. The genealogy of this research can be traced to a remarkable degree to a single pair of scholars, Ursula Bellugi and Edward Klima, who have conducted their research on signed language and educated scores of scholars in the field since the early 1970s. The Signs of Language Revisited has three major objectives: * presenting the latest findings and theories of leading scientists in numerous specialties from language acquisition in children to literacy and deaf people; * taking stock of the distance scholarship has come in a given field, where we are now, and where we should be headed; and * acknowledging and articulating the intellectual debt of the authors to Bellugi and Klima--in some cases through personal reminiscences. Thus, this book is also a document in the sociology and history of science.
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 1135669007
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 525
Book Description
The burgeoning of research on signed language during the last two decades has had a major influence on several disciplines concerned with mind and language, including linguistics, neuroscience, cognitive psychology, child language acquisition, sociolinguistics, bilingualism, and deaf education. The genealogy of this research can be traced to a remarkable degree to a single pair of scholars, Ursula Bellugi and Edward Klima, who have conducted their research on signed language and educated scores of scholars in the field since the early 1970s. The Signs of Language Revisited has three major objectives: * presenting the latest findings and theories of leading scientists in numerous specialties from language acquisition in children to literacy and deaf people; * taking stock of the distance scholarship has come in a given field, where we are now, and where we should be headed; and * acknowledging and articulating the intellectual debt of the authors to Bellugi and Klima--in some cases through personal reminiscences. Thus, this book is also a document in the sociology and history of science.
Nigeria
Author: Anne Rosenberg
Publisher: St. Catharines, Ont. : Crabtree Pub.
ISBN: 9780865052499
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
The religions, festivals, clothing, music, language, arts, and crafts of the culturally diverse African nation of Nigeria are introduced to readers in this volume. Full-color photos and illustrations.
Publisher: St. Catharines, Ont. : Crabtree Pub.
ISBN: 9780865052499
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
The religions, festivals, clothing, music, language, arts, and crafts of the culturally diverse African nation of Nigeria are introduced to readers in this volume. Full-color photos and illustrations.
Linguistic Ecology
Author: Peter Mühlhäusler
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134934882
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 381
Book Description
In this book, the author examines the transformation of the Pacific language region under the impact of colonization, westernization and modernization. By focusing on the linguistic and socio-historical changes of the past 200 years, it aims to bring a new dimension to the study of Pacific linguistics, which up until now has been dominated by questions of historical reconstruction and language typology. In contrast to the traditional portrayal of linguistic change as a natural process, the author focuses on the cultural and historical forces which drive language change. Using the metaphor of language ecology to explain and describe the complex interplay between languages, speakers and social practice, the author looks at how language ecologies have functioned in the past to sustain language diversity, and, at what happens when those ecologies are disrupted. Whilst most of the examples used in the book are taken from the Pacific and Australian region, the insights derived from this area are shown to have global applications. The text should be useful for linguists and all those interested in the large scale loss of human language.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134934882
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 381
Book Description
In this book, the author examines the transformation of the Pacific language region under the impact of colonization, westernization and modernization. By focusing on the linguistic and socio-historical changes of the past 200 years, it aims to bring a new dimension to the study of Pacific linguistics, which up until now has been dominated by questions of historical reconstruction and language typology. In contrast to the traditional portrayal of linguistic change as a natural process, the author focuses on the cultural and historical forces which drive language change. Using the metaphor of language ecology to explain and describe the complex interplay between languages, speakers and social practice, the author looks at how language ecologies have functioned in the past to sustain language diversity, and, at what happens when those ecologies are disrupted. Whilst most of the examples used in the book are taken from the Pacific and Australian region, the insights derived from this area are shown to have global applications. The text should be useful for linguists and all those interested in the large scale loss of human language.
An Introduction to Language and Linguistics
Author: Ralph Fasold
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521847680
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 481
Book Description
This accessible textbook offers balanced and uniformly excellent coverage of modern linguistics.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521847680
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 481
Book Description
This accessible textbook offers balanced and uniformly excellent coverage of modern linguistics.
The Sociology and Politics of English in Nigeria
Author: Femi Akindele
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 154
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 154
Book Description
The Social Life of the Japanese Language
Author: Shigeko Okamoto
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1316720616
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
Why are different varieties of the Japanese language used differently in social interaction, and how are they perceived? How do honorifics operate to express diverse affective stances, such as politeness? Why have issues of gendered speech been so central in public discourse, and how are they reflected and refracted in language use as social practice? This book examines Japanese sociolinguistic phenomena from a fascinating new perspective, focusing on the historical construction of language norms and its relationship to actual language use in contemporary Japan. This socio-historically sensitive account stresses the different choices which have shaped Japanese and Western sociolinguistics and how varieties of Japanese, honorifics and politeness, and gendered language have emerged in response to the socio-political landscape in which a modernizing Japan found itself.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1316720616
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
Why are different varieties of the Japanese language used differently in social interaction, and how are they perceived? How do honorifics operate to express diverse affective stances, such as politeness? Why have issues of gendered speech been so central in public discourse, and how are they reflected and refracted in language use as social practice? This book examines Japanese sociolinguistic phenomena from a fascinating new perspective, focusing on the historical construction of language norms and its relationship to actual language use in contemporary Japan. This socio-historically sensitive account stresses the different choices which have shaped Japanese and Western sociolinguistics and how varieties of Japanese, honorifics and politeness, and gendered language have emerged in response to the socio-political landscape in which a modernizing Japan found itself.