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South African journal for African languages
Suid-Afrikaanse tydskrif vir Afrikatale
Rethinking Language Use in Digital Africa
Author: Leketi Makalela
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
Published: 2021-06-23
Total Pages: 186
ISBN-13: 1800412320
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book challenges the view that digital communication in Africa is limited and relatively unsophisticated and questions the assumption that digital communication has a damaging effect on indigenous African languages. The book applies the principles of Digital African Multilingualism (DAM) in which there are no rigid boundaries between languages. The book charts a way forward for African languages where greater attention is paid to what speakers do with the languages rather than what the languages look like, and offers several models for language policy and planning based on horizontal and user-based multilingualism. The chapters demonstrate how digital communication is being used to form and sustain communication in many kinds of online groups, including for political activism and creating poetry, and offer a paradigm of language merging online that provides a practical blueprint for the decolonization of African languages through digital platforms.
A History of African Linguistics
Author: H. Ekkehard Wolff
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2019-06-13
Total Pages: 377
ISBN-13: 1108417973
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The first global history of African linguistics as an emerging autonomous academic discipline, covering Africa, the Americas, Asia, Australia, and Europe.
African Language Review
Author: D. Dalby
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-09-11
Total Pages: 132
ISBN-13: 113626664X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Sierra Leone Language Review is the African Language Journal of Fourah Bay College, the University College of Sierra Leone. The Journal is devoted to the detailed study of languages in Sierra Leone and neighbouring areas of West Africa, and also to the more general study and discussion of African languages and language-problems.
An Introduction to African Languages
Author: G. Tucker Childs
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Published: 2003-12-19
Total Pages: 287
ISBN-13: 9027295883
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book introduces beginning students and non-specialists to the diversity and richness of African languages. In addition to providing a solid background to the study of African languages, the book presents linguistic phenomena not found in European languages. A goal of this book is to stimulate interest in African languages and address the question: What makes African languages so fascinating? The orientation adopted throughout the book is a descriptive one, which seeks to characterize African languages in a relatively succinct and neutral manner, and to make the facts accessible to a wide variety of readers. The author’s lengthy acquaintance with the continent and field experiences in western, eastern, and southern Africa allow for both a broad perspective and considerable depth in selected areas. The original examples are often the author’s own but also come from other sources and languages not often referenced in the literature. This text also includes a set of sound files illustrating the phenomena under discussion, be they the clicks of Khoisan, talking drums, or the ideophones (words like English lickety-split) found almost everywhere, which will make this book a valuable resource for teacher and student alike.
New Frontiers in Forensic Linguistics
Author: Monwabisi Ralarala
Publisher: AFRICAN SUN MeDIA
Published: 2019-06-25
Total Pages: 338
ISBN-13: 1928480160
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The field of forensic linguistics is a niche area that has not enjoyed much participation from the African continent. The theme of language and the law in this book is one that straddles two important aspects of the legal history of South Africa in particular, and how it has impacted on the country?s legal and education systems. The declaration, by the United Nations, of 2019 as ?The International Year of Indigenous Languages? is opportune, not only for the launch of this book, but for what its research content tells us of the strides taken in ensuring access to justice for all citizens of the world in a language they understand. The contributions by authors in this book tell the story of many African citizens, and those hailing from beyond our borders, who straddle the challenges of linguistic and legal pluralism in courtrooms across their respective countries. It is our hope that the contributions made in this book will assist in ensuring human rights become a reality for global citizens where indigenous voices have not been heard; and that these citizens will be free to give their testimonies in a language of their choice, and that they may be heard and understood.
Journal of African Languages and Linguistics
Language in South Africa
Author: Rajend Mesthrie
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2002-10-17
Total Pages: 526
ISBN-13: 9780521791052
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A 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.
