Recurrent Gestures Of Hausa Speakers

Author : Izabela Will
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004449795
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Recurrent Gestures of Hausa Speakers written by Izabela Will and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-11-15 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a repertoire of conventionalized co-speech gestures used by Hausa speakers from northern Nigeria.

Author : Jorg Roche
Publisher : LIT Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3643966482
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Applied Cognitive Linguistics for Language Teachers written by Jorg Roche and published by LIT Verlag. This book was released on 2023-10-01 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book offers an easy to read introduction on how cognitive linguistics treats and analyses language and how it differs from other approaches to linguistics. Readers are invited to follow an inspiring approach to linguistics adressing many of the most pressing issues and challenges in language teaching and learning. Many examples from a large variety of languages illustrate the theoretical underpinnings and make theory come to life.

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004363394
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Creolization and Pidginization in Contexts of Postcolonial Diversity written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-02-27 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Creolization and pidginization are conceptualized and investigated as specific social processes in the course of which new common languages, socio-cultural practices and identifications are developed in contexts of postcolonial diversity shaped by distinct social, historical and local conditions.

Author : Friederike Lüpke
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 1614511942
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Repertoires and Choices in African Languages written by Friederike Lüpke and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2013-05-28 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most African languages are spoken by communities as one of several languages present on a daily basis. The persistence of multilingualism and the linguistic creativity manifest in the playful use of different languages are striking, especially against the backdrop of language death and expanding monolingualism elsewhere in the world. The effortless mastery of several languages is disturbing, however, for those who take essentialist perspectives that see it as a problem rather than a resource, and for the dominating, conflictual, sociolinguistic model of multilingualism. This volume investigates African minority languages in the context of changing patterns of multilingualism, and also assesses the status of African languages in terms of existing influential vitality scales. An important aspect of multilingual praxis is the speakers' agency in making choices, their repertoires of registers and the multiplicity of language ideology associated with different ways of speaking. The volume represents a new and original contribution to the ethnography of speaking of multilingual practices and the cultural ideas associated with them.

Author : Alexandra Aikhenvald
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004207686
Total Pages : 630 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Language at Large written by Alexandra Aikhenvald and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2011-07-27 with total page 630 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The volume brings together important essays on syntax and semantics by Aikhenvald and Dixon. It focusses on topics in linguistic typology, the analysis of previously undescribed languages and issues in the grammar and lexicography of English.

Author : John Haiman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107069602
Total Pages : 395 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ideophones and the Evolution of Language written by John Haiman and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-01-11 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book argues that ideophones provide the 'missing link' in our knowledge of how communication has evolved to become the spoken language of today.

Author : Ekkehard Wolff
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107088550
Total Pages : 375 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Language and Development in Africa written by Ekkehard Wolff and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-05-26 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores the central role of language across all aspects of public and private life in Africa.

Author : James Paul Gee
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317820576
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Introduction to Discourse Analysis written by James Paul Gee and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-02-03 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discourse analysis considers how language, both spoken and written, enacts social and cultural perspectives and identities. Assuming no prior knowledge of linguistics, An Introduction to Discourse Analysis examines the field and presents James Paul Gee’s unique integrated approach which incorporates both a theory of language-in-use and a method of research. An Introduction to Discourse Analysis can be used as a stand-alone textbook or ideally used in conjunction with the practical companion title How to do Discourse Analysis: A Toolkit. Together they provide the complete resource for students studying discourse analysis. Updated throughout, the fourth edition of this seminal textbook also includes two new chapters: ‘What is Discourse?’ to further understanding of the topic, as well as a new concluding section. A new companion website www.routledge.com/cw/gee features a frequently asked questions section, additional tasks to support understanding, a glossary and free access to journal articles by James Paul Gee. Clearly structured and written in a highly accessible style, An Introduction to Discourse Analysis includes perspectives from a variety of approaches and disciplines, including applied linguistics, education, psychology, anthropology and communication to help students and scholars from a range of backgrounds to formulate their own views on discourse and engage in their own discourse analysis. This is an essential textbook for all advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students of discourse analysis.

Author : Martin Haspelmath
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134645961
Total Pages : 387 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Understanding Morphology written by Martin Haspelmath and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-28 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new edition of Understanding Morphology has been fully revised in line with the latest research. It now includes 'big picture' questions to highlight central themes in morphology, as well as research exercises for each chapter. Understanding Morphology presents an introduction to the study of word structure that starts at the very beginning. Assuming no knowledge of the field of morphology on the part of the reader, the book presents a broad range of morphological phenomena from a wide variety of languages. Starting with the core areas of inflection and derivation, the book presents the interfaces between morphology and syntax and between morphology and phonology. The synchronic study of word structure is covered, as are the phenomena of diachronic change, such as analogy and grammaticalization. Theories are presented clearly in accessible language with the main purpose of shedding light on the data, rather than as a goal in themselves. The authors consistently draw on the best research available, thus utilizing and discussing both functionalist and generative theoretical approaches. Each chapter includes a summary, suggestions for further reading, and exercises. As such this is the ideal book for both beginning students of linguistics, or anyone in a related discipline looking for a first introduction to morphology.

Author : H. Ekkehard Wolff
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781108417983
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Handbook of African Linguistics written by H. Ekkehard Wolff and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-05-16 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides an in-depth and comprehensive state-of-the-art study of 'African languages' and 'language in Africa' since its beginnings as a 'colonial science' at the turn of the twentieth century in Europe. Compiled by 56 internationally renowned scholars, this ground breaking study looks at past and current research on 'African languages' and 'language in Africa' under the impact of paradigmatic changes from 'colonial' to 'postcolonial' perspectives. It addresses current trends in the study of the role and functions of language, African and other, in pre- and postcolonial African societies. Highlighting the central role that the 'language factor' plays in postcolonial transformation processes of sociocultural modernization and economic development, it also addresses more recent, particularly urban, patterns of communication, and outlines applied dimensions of digitalization and human language technology.