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Category : African languages
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
West African Journal of Modern Languages
Author: The Journal of West African Languages
Author: Language Planning and Policy in Africa
Author: Richard B. BaldaufPublisher: Multilingual Matters
ISBN: 1847690114
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 315
Book Description
A longer-range purpose is to collect comparable information on as many polities as possible in order to facilitate the development of a richer theory to guide language policy and planning in other polities that undertake the development of a national policy on languages. This volume is part of an areal series which is committed to providing descriptions of language planning and policy in countries around the world."--BOOK JACKET.
World English
Author: Janina Brutt-GrifflerPublisher: Multilingual Matters
ISBN: 9781853595776
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
This text traces the history of English language spread from the 18th to the beginning of the 21st century, combining that with a study of its langauge change. It links linguistic and sociolinguistic variables that have conditioned the evolution and change of English, putting forward a new framework of language spread and change.
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.
World Englishes Problems, Properties and Prospects
Author: Thomas HoffmannPublisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 9027289069
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 460
Book Description
World Englishes is a vibrant research field that has attracted scholars from many different linguistic subdisciplines. Emphasizing the common ground of all research on World Englishes, the 22 articles in this collected volume, selected from more than a hundred papers presented at the 2007 conference of the International Association for World Englishes in Regensburg, cover a broad range of topics which together reflect the state of the art of research in this field. The volume focuses on regions as diverse as Africa, the Caribbean, the Antipodes and Asia, but also promotes a globally comparative perspective by analyzing selected characteristics of the English language across a wide range of varieties. Methodologically, a number of different approaches are applied, including corpus linguistic studies, socio-phonetics as well as historical discourse analysis. Due to its wide scope, the book is of interest not only to World Englishes scholars but also to sociolinguists as well as applied, contact or corpus linguists.
West African Studies in Modern Language Teaching and Research
Author: Ayo BanjoPublisher:
ISBN: 9789783001206
Category : Africa, West
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
The Other Tongue
Author: Braj B. KachruPublisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 9780252062001
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
When The Other Tongue appeared in 1982, it was called "required reading for all those concerned with English teaching in non-native situations, from the classroom teacher to the policy planner", Jowhn Platt, English World-Wide) and "an extremely useful and stimulating collection" (William C. Ritchie, Language). It introduced refreshingly new perspectives for understanding the spread and functions of English around the world. This dramatically revised volume contains eight new chapters, replacing or updating more than half of the first edition. The Other Tongue is the first attempt to integrate and address provocative issues relevant to a deeper understanding of the forms and functions of English within different sociolinguistic, cross-cultural, and cross-linguistic contexts. The volume discusses linguistic, literary, pedagogical, and attitudinal issues related to world Englishes.
Language and Society
Author: William C. McCormackPublisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 3110806487
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 788
Book Description
Multilingualism
Author: Efurosibina E. AdegbijaPublisher: Africa World Press
ISBN: 9781592211739
Category : Multilingualism
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
Adegbija puts a national and international,searchlight on the Nigerian socio-linguistic,scenario through a description and analysis of the,language landscape in its various,ramifications. He provides a readily accessiblestimulating and fairly comprehensive description,of the language situation, including the functions,of languages, language choice, language attitudesthe plight and destiny of minority languages and,the planning, management and engineering of,multilingualism in the Nigerian context.