Studies in the Lexical Development of the Zulu Language
Author: Christopher Urdahl Faye
Publisher:
Published: 1924
Total Pages: 552
ISBN-13:
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Language and Social History
Author: Rajend Mesthrie
Publisher: New Africa Books
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 376
ISBN-13: 9780864862808
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLearning Zulu
Author: Mark Sanders
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2019-06-04
Total Pages: 208
ISBN-13: 0691191468
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Why are you learning Zulu?" When Mark Sanders began studying the language, he was often asked this question. In Learning Zulu, Sanders places his own endeavors within a wider context to uncover how, in the past 150 years of South African history, Zulu became a battleground for issues of property, possession, and deprivation. Sanders combines elements of analysis and memoir to explore a complex cultural history. Perceiving that colonial learners of Zulu saw themselves as repairing harm done to Africans by Europeans, Sanders reveals deeper motives at work in the development of Zulu-language learning—from the emergence of the pidgin Fanagalo among missionaries and traders in the nineteenth century to widespread efforts, in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, to teach a correct form of Zulu. Sanders looks at the white appropriation of Zulu language, music, and dance in South African culture, and at the association of Zulu with a martial masculinity. In exploring how Zulu has come to represent what is most properly and powerfully African, Sanders examines differences in English- and Zulu-language press coverage of an important trial, as well as the role of linguistic purism in xenophobic violence in South Africa. Through one person's efforts to learn the Zulu language, Learning Zulu explores how a language's history and politics influence all individuals in a multilingual society.
Language in South Africa
Author: Rajend Mesthrie
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2002-10-17
Total Pages: 526
ISBN-13: 9780521791052
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA wide-ranging guide to language and society in South Africa. The book surveys the most important language groupings in the region in terms of wider socio-historical processes; contact between the different language varieties; language and public policy issues associated with post-apartheid society and its eleven official languages.
A History of African Linguistics
Author: H. Ekkehard Wolff
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2019-06-13
Total Pages: 377
ISBN-13: 1108417973
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe first global history of African linguistics as an emerging autonomous academic discipline, covering Africa, the Americas, Asia, Australia, and Europe.
Infant Development
Author: J. Gavin Bremner
Publisher: Psychology Press
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 356
ISBN-13: 9780863774638
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn account of recent research into infant development, the text includes 13 chapters writen by British and North American infancy researchers. Although the chapters are organized along conventional lines into sections on perceptual, cognitive and social development, the emphasis (appearing both within chapters and in the linking editorial passages within sections) is on links between perceptual, cognitive and social aspects of development. Thus, new findings on infant perception are related to both old and new accounts of cognitive developemnt, and links are drawn between these topics and the development of social interaction and language. Attention is given to both traditional approaches such as Piagetian theory, and more recent approaches such as direct perception and dynamic systems theory. There is also a chapter devoted to interpreting infant development from a psychoanalytic perspective.
The Development of Language
Author: Martyn Barrett
Publisher: Psychology Press
Published: 2016-01-28
Total Pages: 434
ISBN-13: 1317715276
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book presents a general overview of our current knowledge of language development in children. All the principal strands of language development are covered, including phonological, lexical, syntactic and pragmatic development; bilingualism; precursors to language development in infancy; and the language development of children with developmental disabilities, including children with specific language impairment. Written by leading international authorities, each chapter summarises clearly and lucidly our current state of knowledge, and carefully explains and evaluates the theories which have been proposed to account for children's development in that area.
Embodiment in Cross-Linguistic Studies
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Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2021-11-29
Total Pages: 375
ISBN-13: 9004498591
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume is the first book publication which focuses on conceptualization and polysemy of ‘eye’. It encompasses a wide variety of languages to evidence cross linguistic similarities and differences in the semantic extensions of the eye.
Handbook of Speech-Language Therapy in Sub-Saharan Africa
Author: Ulrike M. Lüdtke
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: 2023-02-03
Total Pages: 805
ISBN-13: 3031045041
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book synthesizes research on language development and communication disability in Sub-Saharan Africa and highlights best practices for providing speech and language therapy services to individuals with language, communication, and hearing disorders across the lifespan. The book brings together a wide range of international contributions from various disciplines, such as speech-language pathology, audiology, developmental psychology, language education, social work, neurology, neuropsychology, pediatrics, linguistics, pedagogy, and phonetics to provide perspectives on problems, challenges, ideas, concepts, and models to serve the people in Sub-Saharan Africa. Key areas of coverage include: Challenges for speech-language therapists in the health sector. Community awareness and the sustainable delivery of services. Culture-specific support of communication and language development in early childhood. Malnutrition, dysphagia, feeding difficulties, pediatric HIV, and related issues. Communication disability treatments, including assessment and intervention, augmentative and alternative communication (AAC), and issues specific to bilingualism and biliteracy. Inclusive education of children with communication disorders with case studies from Rwanda, Tanzania, Kenya, and South Africa. The Handbook of Speech-Language Therapy in Sub-Saharan Africa is an essential reference for researchers, professors, and graduate students as well as clinicians, therapists, and other professionals in developmental psychology, speech-language pathology and therapy, social work, neuropsychology, pediatrics, special education, community based rehabilitation, and all related disciplines.
