The cradle of language [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Rudolf Botha, Chris Knight |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Oxford, : Oxford University Press, 2009 |
Descrizione fisica | xviii, 386 p., [12] p. : ill., maps |
Altri autori (Persone) |
BothaRudolf P
KnightChris <1942-> |
Collana | Studies in the evolution of language |
Soggetto topico |
Language and languages - Origin
Historical linguistics - Africa Anthropological linguistics - Africa Sociolinguistics - Africa |
ISBN |
1-383-04519-4
0-19-156767-1 1-282-26861-9 9786612268618 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910795751003321 |
Oxford, : Oxford University Press, 2009 | ||
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The cradle of language [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Rudolf Botha, Chris Knight |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Oxford, : Oxford University Press, 2009 |
Descrizione fisica | xviii, 386 p., [12] p. : ill., maps |
Altri autori (Persone) |
BothaRudolf P
KnightChris <1942-> |
Collana | Studies in the evolution of language |
Soggetto topico |
Language and languages - Origin
Historical linguistics - Africa Anthropological linguistics - Africa Sociolinguistics - Africa |
ISBN |
1-383-04519-4
0-19-156767-1 1-282-26861-9 9786612268618 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910815209603321 |
Oxford, : Oxford University Press, 2009 | ||
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Essays on language, communication and literature in Africa / / edited by Akin Odebunmi and Joyce T. Mathangwane |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Newcastle upon Tyne, England : , : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, , 2015 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (554 pages) : illustrations, tables |
Disciplina | 306.44096 |
Soggetto topico |
Sociolinguistics - Africa
Communication - Africa |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN | 1-4438-8851-6 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910465769003321 |
Newcastle upon Tyne, England : , : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, , 2015 | ||
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Essays on language, communication and literature in Africa / / edited by Akin Odebunmi and Joyce T. Mathangwane |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Newcastle upon Tyne, England : , : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, , 2015 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (554 pages) : illustrations, tables |
Disciplina | 306.44096 |
Soggetto topico |
Sociolinguistics - Africa
Communication - Africa |
ISBN | 1-4438-8851-6 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910798690003321 |
Newcastle upon Tyne, England : , : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, , 2015 | ||
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Essays on language, communication and literature in Africa / / edited by Akin Odebunmi and Joyce T. Mathangwane |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Newcastle upon Tyne, England : , : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, , 2015 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (554 pages) : illustrations, tables |
Disciplina | 306.44096 |
Soggetto topico |
Sociolinguistics - Africa
Communication - Africa |
ISBN | 1-4438-8851-6 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910819884103321 |
Newcastle upon Tyne, England : , : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, , 2015 | ||
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Language decline and death in Africa [[electronic resource] ] : causes, consequences, and challenges / / Herman M. Batibo |
Autore | Batibo Herman |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Clevedon ; ; Buffalo, : Multilingual Matters, 2005 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (186 p.) |
Disciplina | 306.44/096 |
Collana | Multilingual Matters |
Soggetto topico |
Sociolinguistics - Africa
Language attrition - Africa Language obsolescence - Africa Language maintenance - Africa |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-280-73941-X
9786610739417 1-85359-810-0 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Preface -- Map 1. The Language Families of Africa -- Map 2. The Countries and Territories of Africa -- Chapter 1: The Languages of Africa -- Chapter 2: Patterns of Language Use in Africa -- Chapter 3: African Languages as a Resource -- Chapter 4: The Minority Languages of Africa -- Chapter 5: The Endangered Languages of Africa -- Chapter 6: Language Shift and Death in Africa -- Chapter 7: Language Maintenance in Africa -- Chapter 8: Language Empowerment Measures -- References -- Appendix 1: Nationally and Areally Dominant Languages of Africa, by Country -- Appendix 2: Highly Endangered and Extinct or Nearly Extinct Languages of Africa, by Country -- Appendix 3: Number of Dominant and Minority Languages of Africa, by Country -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910450755303321 |
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Language decline and death in Africa [[electronic resource] ] : causes, consequences, and challenges / / Herman M. Batibo |
Autore | Batibo Herman |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Clevedon ; ; Buffalo, : Multilingual Matters, 2005 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (186 p.) |
Disciplina | 306.44/096 |
Collana | Multilingual Matters |
Soggetto topico |
Sociolinguistics - Africa
Language attrition - Africa Language obsolescence - Africa Language maintenance - Africa |
ISBN |
1-280-73941-X
9786610739417 1-85359-810-0 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Preface -- Map 1. The Language Families of Africa -- Map 2. The Countries and Territories of Africa -- Chapter 1: The Languages of Africa -- Chapter 2: Patterns of Language Use in Africa -- Chapter 3: African Languages as a Resource -- Chapter 4: The Minority Languages of Africa -- Chapter 5: The Endangered Languages of Africa -- Chapter 6: Language Shift and Death in Africa -- Chapter 7: Language Maintenance in Africa -- Chapter 8: Language Empowerment Measures -- References -- Appendix 1: Nationally and Areally Dominant Languages of Africa, by Country -- Appendix 2: Highly Endangered and Extinct or Nearly Extinct Languages of Africa, by Country -- Appendix 3: Number of Dominant and Minority Languages of Africa, by Country -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910783782303321 |
Batibo Herman
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Clevedon ; ; Buffalo, : Multilingual Matters, 2005 | ||
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Language decline and death in Africa [[electronic resource] ] : causes, consequences, and challenges / / Herman M. Batibo |
Autore | Batibo Herman |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Clevedon ; ; Buffalo, : Multilingual Matters, 2005 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (186 p.) |
Disciplina | 306.44/096 |
Collana | Multilingual Matters |
Soggetto topico |
Sociolinguistics - Africa
Language attrition - Africa Language obsolescence - Africa Language maintenance - Africa |
ISBN |
1-280-73941-X
9786610739417 1-85359-810-0 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Preface -- Map 1. The Language Families of Africa -- Map 2. The Countries and Territories of Africa -- Chapter 1: The Languages of Africa -- Chapter 2: Patterns of Language Use in Africa -- Chapter 3: African Languages as a Resource -- Chapter 4: The Minority Languages of Africa -- Chapter 5: The Endangered Languages of Africa -- Chapter 6: Language Shift and Death in Africa -- Chapter 7: Language Maintenance in Africa -- Chapter 8: Language Empowerment Measures -- References -- Appendix 1: Nationally and Areally Dominant Languages of Africa, by Country -- Appendix 2: Highly Endangered and Extinct or Nearly Extinct Languages of Africa, by Country -- Appendix 3: Number of Dominant and Minority Languages of Africa, by Country -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910823363003321 |
Batibo Herman
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The languages of urban Africa [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Fiona Mc Laughlin |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | London ; ; New York, NY, : Continuum, c2009 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (251 p.) |
Disciplina | 306.44096091732 |
Altri autori (Persone) | Mc LaughlinFiona |
Collana | Advances in sociolinguistics |
Soggetto topico |
Sociolinguistics - Africa
Urban dialects - Africa |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-282-31954-X
9786612319549 1-4411-9656-0 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Contents; Acknowledgments; Notes on Contributors; 1 Introduction to the languages of urban Africa; 2 The historical dynamic of multilingualism in Accra; 3 The story of old-urban vernaculars in North Africa; 4 The spread of Lingala as a lingua franca in the Congo Basin; 5 Senegal's early cities and the making of an urban language; 6 Discourse, community, identity: processes of linguistic homogenization in Bamako; 7 The multiple facets of the urban language form, Nouchi; 8 On assessing the ethnolinguistic vitality of Ga in Accra; 9 Multilingualism and language use in Porto Novo
10 Language choice in Dar es Salaam's billboards11 Innovations on the fringes of the Kiswahili-speaking world; 12 Polarizing and blending: compatible practices in a bilingual urban community in Cape Town; References; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910455085903321 |
London ; ; New York, NY, : Continuum, c2009 | ||
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The languages of urban Africa [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Fiona Mc Laughlin |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | London ; ; New York, NY, : Continuum, c2009 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (251 p.) |
Disciplina | 306.44096091732 |
Altri autori (Persone) | Mc LaughlinFiona |
Collana | Advances in sociolinguistics |
Soggetto topico |
Sociolinguistics - Africa
Urban dialects - Africa |
ISBN |
1-282-31954-X
9786612319549 1-4411-9656-0 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Contents; Acknowledgments; Notes on Contributors; 1 Introduction to the languages of urban Africa; 2 The historical dynamic of multilingualism in Accra; 3 The story of old-urban vernaculars in North Africa; 4 The spread of Lingala as a lingua franca in the Congo Basin; 5 Senegal's early cities and the making of an urban language; 6 Discourse, community, identity: processes of linguistic homogenization in Bamako; 7 The multiple facets of the urban language form, Nouchi; 8 On assessing the ethnolinguistic vitality of Ga in Accra; 9 Multilingualism and language use in Porto Novo
10 Language choice in Dar es Salaam's billboards11 Innovations on the fringes of the Kiswahili-speaking world; 12 Polarizing and blending: compatible practices in a bilingual urban community in Cape Town; References; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910778417103321 |
London ; ; New York, NY, : Continuum, c2009 | ||
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