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Author: Anne Schröder
Publisher: Gunter Narr Verlag
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9783823358213
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"[A]ll interview transcriptions and almost 150 tables with calculations from the quantitative survey are made available on the accompanying CD-ROM."--Page 4 of cover.
Author: John E. Reinecke
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Published: 1993-01-01
Total Pages: 100
ISBN-13: 9780824815172
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Susanne Maria Michaelis
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 325
ISBN-13: 0199691401
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe most authoritative guide ever published to the world's pidgin and creole languages. The 3-volume Survey describes their histories and linguistic characteristics. The Atlas of Pidgins and Creoles, published at the same time, shows how 130 linguistic features are distributed among the world's languages.
Author: Charles A. Ferguson
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1996-02-15
Total Pages: 359
ISBN-13: 0195357701
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe work of the linguist Charles A. Ferguson spans more than three decades, and is remarkable for having been consistently at the forefront of scholarship on the relationship between language and society. This volume collects his most influential and seminal papers, each having expanded the parameters of sociolinguistics and the sociology of language. Taken together, they cover a wide range of topics and issues, and, more importantly, reflect the intellectual progress of a founder of the sociolinguistic field. The volume is divided thematically into four sections, and an introduction by Thom Huebner outlines the evolution of Ferguson's ideas and the impact they have had on other scholars. This book is essential reading for everyone interested in the field of sociolinguistics.
Author: John Holm
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 308
ISBN-13: 9780521585811
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA clear and concise introduction to the study of how new languages come into being.
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Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2018-02-27
Total Pages: 432
ISBN-13: 9004363394
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book deals with creolization and pidginization of language, culture and identity and makes use of interdisciplinary approaches developed in the study of the latter. Creolization and pidginization are conceptualized and investigated as specific social processes in the course of which new common languages, socio-cultural practices and identifications are developed under distinct social and political conditions and in different historical and local contexts of diversity. The contributions show that creolization and pidginization are important strategies to deal with identity and difference in a world in which diversity is closely linked with inequalities that relate to specific group memberships, colonial legacies and social norms and values.
Author: John McWhorter
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2000-07-03
Total Pages: 294
ISBN-13: 0520219996
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA controversial new analysis of the development of New World creole languages among slaves. Mc Whorter makes a vast amount of new data available in his book, and posits that New World creole languages developed in West Africa, not on the plantations in the New World.
Author: Peter Bakker Researcher University of Aarhus
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 1997-05-08
Total Pages: 341
ISBN-13: 0198025750
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Michif language -- spoken by descendants of French Canadian fur traders and Cree Indians in western Canada -- is considered an "impossible language" since it uses French for nouns and Cree for verbs, and comprises two different sets of grammatical rules. Bakker uses historical research and fieldwork data to present the first detailed analysis of this language and how it came into being.
Author: Jocelyne Kenne Kenne
Publisher: LIT Verlag
Published: 2023-10-31
Total Pages: 290
ISBN-13: 3643964382
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"This book is the first in-depth treatment from a linguistic perspective of the Chinese presence in Africa. It is essentially a detailed study on communication in various domains between Chinese immigrants in Cameroon and the local community with whom they interact. In eight chapters this well-organized book is able to give a relatively detailed sociolinguistic description of the host country, Cameroon, provide a good theoretical background of the study, outline the methodology used for the study which involved mainly a questionnaire survey, semi-structured interviews, and field observations before drawing conclusions to the study. This is a brilliant contribution to a growing literature on the global Chinese diaspora." - Adams Bodomo, Professor of African Studies (Chair of Linguistics and Literatures) at the University of Vienna, Austria
Author: Tony Chafer
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2023-11-02
Total Pages: 640
ISBN-13: 1351142143
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Routledge Handbook of Francophone Africa brings together a multidisciplinary team of international experts to reflect on the history, politics, societies, and cultures of French-speaking parts of Africa. Consisting of approximately 35% of Africa’s territory, Francophone Africa is a shifting concept, with its roots in French and Belgian colonial rule. This handbook develops and problematizes the term, with thematic sections covering: Colonial and post-colonial ties between France and sub-Saharan Africa Belgium, Belgian colonialism and Africa The Maghreb African Francophones in France Francophone African literature and film ‘Francophone’ and ‘Anglophone’ Africa Beyond national boundaries and ‘colonial partners’ The chapters demonstrate the evolution of "Francophone Africa" into a multi-dimensional construct, with both a material and an imagined reality. Materially, it defines a regional territorial space that coexists with other conceptualisations of African space and borders. Conceptually, Francophone Africa constitutes a shared linguistic and cultural space within which collective memories are shared, not least through their connection to the French imperial imagination. Overall, the Handbook demonstrates that as global power structures and relations evolve, African agency is increasingly assertive in shaping French-African relations. Bringing this important debate together into a single volume, this Handbook will be an essential resource for students and scholars interested in Francophone Africa.
