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UNINA9910459345103321 |
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Autore |
Osborn Donald Zhang |
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Titolo |
African languages in a digital age [[electronic resource] ] : challenges and opportunities for indigenous language computing / / Don Osborn |
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Ottawa, : International Development Research Centre, 2010 |
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1-282-57812-X |
9786612578120 |
1-55250-473-5 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (167 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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African languages |
Computational linguistics |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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1. Introduction. 2. Background. Importance of African languages and implications for ICT. What is localisation? Overlapping regional contexts: localisation where? Who localises? What is the current state of localisation across the African region? -- 3. Introducing 'localisation ecology.' An ecological perspective on the environment for localisation. The PLETES model. Dynamic complexes within localisation ecology. Relevance to questions of ICT and localisation -- 4. Linguistic context. Languages, dialects and linguistic geography. Sociolinguistics and language change. Oral and literate traditions. Language and language in education policies. Basic literacy, pluriliteracy and user skills. Terminology and accommodation of ICT concepts -- 5. Technical context I: physical access. Physical and soft access. Computer hardware and operating systems. Connectivity and ICT policy -- 6. Technical context II: internationalisation. The facilitating technical environment. Handling complex scripts: from ASCII to Unicode. The 'last mile' of internationalisation. Internationalisation and localisation -- 7. African-language texts, encoding and fonts. Non-Latin scripts and ICT. Typology of Latin-based African orthographies. Evolution of African-language text use in ICT. Fonts. 8. Keyboards and input systems. |
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Keyboards. Keyboards for Africa. Alternative input methods -- 9. Defining languages in ICT: tags and locales. Languages and the ISO 639 standards. Locale data -- 10. Internet. E-mail. Internationalisation and the web. Web content in and about African languages. Internationalised domain names -- 11. Software localisation. Applications and operating systems. Trends in proprietary software. Trends in free and open-source software. Software localisation in Africa. Web interfaces -- 12. Mobile technology and other specialised applications. Mobile technology. Audio dimensions: voice, text-to-speech and speech recognition. Computer assisted translation -- 13. Achieving sustainable localisation. Needs by kind of localisation and localiser. Understanding the needs of localisers. Analysis of needs from a pan-African perspective. Facilitating communication about localisation -- 14. Summary, recommendations and conclusion. Major themes. Strategic perspective. Conferences and workshops. Training and public education on localisation. Information resources and networking. Languages, policy and planning. Basic localisation and ICT policies and programmes. Africa and ICT standards for localisation. Advanced applications, tools and research. Conclusion. |
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With increasing numbers of computers and penetration of the Internet around the world, localization of the technology and the content it carries into the many languages people speak is becoming an ever more important area for discussion and action. Localization, simply put, includes translation and cultural adaptation of user interfaces and software applications, as well as creation and translation of internet content in diverse languages. It is essential in making information and communication technology more accessible to the populations of the poorer countries, increasing its relevance to t |
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UNINA9910451838503321 |
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'Immortal Austria'? [[electronic resource] ] : Austrians in exile in Britain / / edited by Charmian Brinson, Richard Dove and Jennifer Taylor |
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Amsterdam, : Rodopi, 2007 |
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94-012-0403-9 |
1-4294-8109-9 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (232 p.) |
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Yearbook of the Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies ; ; 8 |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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BrinsonCharmian |
DoveRichard <1938-> |
TaylorJennifer |
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Exiles - Austria - History - 20th century |
Austrians - Great Britain - History - 20th century |
Electronic books. |
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Papers from a conference held by the Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies in London, in September 2005. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Preliminary Material -- The Emigration of Austrians to Britain after 1938 and the Early Years of Settlement: A Survey / Anthony Grenville -- The Propagandists’ Propagandist: Bruno Adler’s ‘Kurt und Willi’ Dialogues as Expression of British Propagand Objectives / Jennifer Taylor -- ‘Zum Emigranten habe ich kein Talent’: Stefan Zweig’s Exile in London / Tatiana Liani -- Exil, Judentum und Sprache in ausgewählten Nachlass-Aufzeichnungen von Elias Canetti / Anne Peiter -- Exil der Wiener Medizin in Großbritannien / Renate Feikes -- Enduring Exile? Or passing acquaintance? Images of Britain in the Work of Georg Kreisler / Colin Beaven -- ‘Immortal Austria’: Eva Priester as a Propagandist for Austria in British Exile / Charmian Brinson -- Wien-Bilder: Paul L. Stein, Richard Tauber und das britische Kino / Christian Cargnelli -- Fritz Rosenfeld, Filmkritiker / Brigitte Mayr and Michael Omasta -- ‘Kennen wir uns nicht aus Wien?’: Emigré Film-Makers from Austria in London 1928-1945 / Tobias Hochscherf -- Imaging the Future through the Past: Austrian Women Exile Writers and the Historical Novel / Andrea Hammel -- Imagining Austria: Kohlröserl, |
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Alpenglühen und Patisserie – the Vision of the Exiled Children / Deborah Vietor-Engländer -- „Einmal Emigrant, immer Emigrant“: Zur literarischen und publizistischen „Remigration“ Robert Neumanns 1946-1965 / Maximiliane Jäger -- Many Happy Returns? Attitudes to Exile in Austria’s Literary and Cultural Journals in the early Post-war Years / Anthony Bushell -- Index -- Yearbook of the Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies, Volume 9 (2007). |
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Immortal Austria was the title of a theatrical pageant devised by Austrian refugees in wartime London, the name summarizing their collective memory of their homeland as a country of mountain scenery, historical grandeur and musical refinement. The reality of the country they had left, and the one to which some of them returned, was very different. This volume contains various studies of the representations of their homeland in the cultural production of Austrian exiles, including those projected by émigrés working in the British film industry, those portrayed in the historical novel and in the literary works of such notable authors as Stefan Zweig, Elias Canetti and Robert Neumann. It opens with a survey of the make-up of the Austrian exile community and concludes with a study of attitudes to returning exiles, as reflected in the post-war literary journals. The volume thus offers students and teachers a vital cultural link between the pre-1934 Austria of the First Republic and the post-1945 Austria of the Second. |
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