West African Journal of Modern Languages
Title | West African Journal of Modern Languages PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 350 |
Release | 1976 |
Genre | African languages |
ISBN |
The Journal of West African Languages
Title | The Journal of West African Languages PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 500 |
Release | 2005 |
Genre | Africa, West |
ISBN |
Language Planning and Policy in Africa
Title | Language Planning and Policy in Africa PDF eBook |
Author | Richard B. Baldauf |
Publisher | Multilingual Matters |
Pages | 315 |
Release | 2007-01-01 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 1847690114 |
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.
West African Studies in Modern Language Teaching and Research
Title | West African Studies in Modern Language Teaching and Research PDF eBook |
Author | Ayo Banjo |
Publisher | |
Pages | 330 |
Release | 1981 |
Genre | Africa, West |
ISBN | 9789783001206 |
World English
Title | World English PDF eBook |
Author | Janina Brutt-Griffler |
Publisher | Multilingual Matters |
Pages | 234 |
Release | 2002-01-01 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 9781853595776 |
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
Title | African Literature PDF eBook |
Author | Jonathan P. Smithe |
Publisher | Nova Publishers |
Pages | 152 |
Release | 2002 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9781590332900 |
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
Title | World Englishes Problems, Properties and Prospects PDF eBook |
Author | Thomas Hoffmann |
Publisher | John Benjamins Publishing |
Pages | 460 |
Release | 2009-09-23 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 9027289069 |
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.