Language in South Africa / / edited by Rajend Mesthrie [[electronic resource]]

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910450206903321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2002
• ISBN: 1-107-12962-1; 1-280-42994-1; 0-511-17778-X; 0-511-04116-0; 0-511-14820-8; 0-511-30521-4; 0-511-48669-3; 0-511-04673-1
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xvii, 485 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Disciplina: 306.44/0968
• Soggetti: Sociolinguistics - South Africa; Language and culture - South Africa; Language policy - South Africa; Language planning - South Africa; South Africa Languages
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Part I. The main language groupings -- South Africa: a sociolinguistic overview / R. Mesthrie -- Khoesan languages / A. Traill -- Bantu languages: sociohistorical perspectives / Robert K. Herbert, Richard Bailey -- Afrikaans: considering origins / Paul T. Roberge -- South African English / Roger Lass -- South African sign language: one language or many? / Debra Aarons, Philemon Akach -- German speakers in South Africa / Elizabeth De Kadt -- Language change, survival, decline: Indian languages in South Africa / R. Mesthrie -- ; Part II. Language contact -- ; (A) Pidginisation, borrowing, switching and intercultural contact -- Fanakalo: a pidgin in South Africa / Ralph Adendorff -- Mutual lexical borrowings among some languages of ; southern Africa: Xhosa, Afrikaans and English / William Branford, J.S. Claughton -- Code-switching, mixing and convergence in Cape Town / K. McCormick -- Code-switching in South African townships / S. Slabbert, R. Finlayson -- Intercultural miscommunication in South Africa -- ; (B) Gender, language change and shift -- Women's language of respect: isihlonipho sabafazi / R. Finlayson -- Sociohistory of clicks in SOuthern Bantu / Robert K. Herbert -- Political economy of language shift: language and gendered ethnicity in a Thonga community / Robert K. Herbert -- ; (C) New varieties of English -- From second language to first language: Indian South African English / R. Mesthrie -- Black South African English / Vivian De Klerk, David Gough -- ; (D) New urban codes -- Lexicon and sociolinguistic codes of the working-class Afrikaans-speaking Cape Peninsula coloured community / Gerald L. Stone -- Introduction to Flaaitaal (or Tsotsitaal) / K.D.P. Makhudu -- Language and language practices in Soweto / Dumisani Krushchev Ntshangase -- ; Part III. Language planning, policy and education -- Language planning and language policy: past, present and future / T.G. Reagan -- Language issues in South African education: an overview / Sarah Murray -- Recovering multilingualism: recent language-policy developments / Kathleen Heugh.
• Sommario/riassunto: This is a comprehensive and wide-ranging 2002 guide to language and society in South Africa. As the authors demonstrate, the South African context offers a treasure trove of data and examples for linguistic and sociolinguistic study. The book surveys the most important language groupings in the region in terms of pre-colonial and colonial history; contact between the different language varieties, leading to language loss, pidginization, creolization and new mixed varieties; language and public policy issues associated with the transition to a post-apartheid society and its eleven official languages. It details the history of indigenous languages, the impact of European languages upon them, and of transformations to the European languages themselves. Written by a team of leading researchers, all the chapters are informed by the importance of socio-political history in understanding questions of language. The book will be welcomed by students and researchers in language and linguistics, sociology, anthropology and social history.

Unsung Voices : Opera and Musical Narrative in the Nineteenth Century / / Carolyn Abbate

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910383859903321
• Autore: Abbate Carolyn
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Princeton, NJ : , : Princeton University Press, , [1996]; ©1996
• ISBN: 1-322-97431-4; 1-4008-4383-9
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (288 p.)
• Collana: Princeton Studies in Opera ; ; 1
• Disciplina: 782.1/09/034
• Soggetti: Narrative in music; Music - 19th century - Philosophy and aesthetics; Opera - 19th century
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [275]-282) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Preface -- Chapter One. Music's Voices -- Chapter Two. What the Sorcerer Said -- Chapter Three. Cherubino Uncovered: Reflexivity in Operatic Narration -- Chapter Four. Mahler's Deafness: Opera and the Scene of Narration in Todtenfeier -- Chapter Five. Wotan's Monologue and the Morality of Musical Narration -- Chapter Six. Brünnhilde Walks by Night -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Who "speaks" to us in The Sorcerer's Apprentice, in Wagner's operas, in a Mahler symphony? In asking this question, Carolyn Abbate opens nineteenth-century operas and instrumental works to new interpretations as she explores the voices projected by music. The nineteenth-century metaphor of music that "sings" is thus reanimated in a new context, and Abbate proposes interpretive strategies that "de-center" music criticism, that seek the polyphony and dialogism of music, and that celebrate musical gestures often marginalized by conventional music analysis.