Author: Warren L. D'Azevedo
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 15
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Some Liberian English Usages
Author: Warren L. D'Azevedo
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 15
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 15
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Cracking the Code
Author: John Mark Sheppard
Publisher: eBookIt.com
ISBN: 1456612034
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 87
Book Description
"Cracking the Code: The Confused Traveler's Guide to Liberian English" is the brainchild of John Mark Sheppard, who moved with his family from the United States to Liberia when he was just three years old. He learned Liberian English as a second language as he spent his childhood and teen years immersed in the Liberian culture. After college in the United States, John Mark returned to Liberia and began a more formal study of Liberia's history, customs and languages. In this truly fascinating book, John Mark combines his training in linguistics with an extensive knowledge of the language he has grown to love. Besides the more than one thousand helpful explanations of specific words or phrases, "Cracking the Code: The Confused Traveler's Guide to Liberian English" includes a fascinating history of the people groups and languages of the region, a pronunciation guide, a list of Liberian proverbs and practical, how-to-avoid-embarrassing-yourself advice for Westerners.
Publisher: eBookIt.com
ISBN: 1456612034
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 87
Book Description
"Cracking the Code: The Confused Traveler's Guide to Liberian English" is the brainchild of John Mark Sheppard, who moved with his family from the United States to Liberia when he was just three years old. He learned Liberian English as a second language as he spent his childhood and teen years immersed in the Liberian culture. After college in the United States, John Mark returned to Liberia and began a more formal study of Liberia's history, customs and languages. In this truly fascinating book, John Mark combines his training in linguistics with an extensive knowledge of the language he has grown to love. Besides the more than one thousand helpful explanations of specific words or phrases, "Cracking the Code: The Confused Traveler's Guide to Liberian English" includes a fascinating history of the people groups and languages of the region, a pronunciation guide, a list of Liberian proverbs and practical, how-to-avoid-embarrassing-yourself advice for Westerners.
An Introduction to Liberian English
Author: John Victor Singler
Publisher:
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Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 288
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 288
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Phonology of Liberian English
Author: Paola Varaschini
Publisher:
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Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 82
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Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 82
Book Description
Perspectives on Black English
Author: Joey L. Dillard
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 3110905329
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 393
Book Description
CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE SOCIOLOGY OF LANGUAGE brings to students, researchers and practitioners in all of the social and language-related sciences carefully selected book-length publications dealing with sociolinguistic theory, methods, findings and applications. It approaches the study of language in society in its broadest sense, as a truly international and interdisciplinary field in which various approaches, theoretical and empirical, supplement and complement each other. The series invites the attention of linguists, language teachers of all interests, sociologists, political scientists, anthropologists, historians etc. to the development of the sociology of language.
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 3110905329
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 393
Book Description
CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE SOCIOLOGY OF LANGUAGE brings to students, researchers and practitioners in all of the social and language-related sciences carefully selected book-length publications dealing with sociolinguistic theory, methods, findings and applications. It approaches the study of language in society in its broadest sense, as a truly international and interdisciplinary field in which various approaches, theoretical and empirical, supplement and complement each other. The series invites the attention of linguists, language teachers of all interests, sociologists, political scientists, anthropologists, historians etc. to the development of the sociology of language.
Liberian English Phrasebook and Dictionary
Author: John C. Rigdon
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781691224920
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
This book is a first step to document a language which til this time has been entirely oral. Liberian English (Kolokwa) has been used for almost 200 years at least by the people of Liberia, but up until just recently it has not been recognized as a dialect of pidgin of English. The first academic studies of the language date back to the 1970's and although several academic papers have been written in the past 25 years, no one has taken the initiative to create a dictionary.The typical process in documenting an oral language is the translation of the Bible, but that has not been done yet in the case of Kolokwa. Gullah, which is a close sister-language has a New Testament which was completed in 2005. Jamaican Patois also now has a Bible translation, completed in 2012. While the number of native speakers of Gullah is probably less than 1,000 and Jamaican Patois has 3 million speakers, the estimates for Kolokwa speakers reach 1.6 million people.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781691224920
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
This book is a first step to document a language which til this time has been entirely oral. Liberian English (Kolokwa) has been used for almost 200 years at least by the people of Liberia, but up until just recently it has not been recognized as a dialect of pidgin of English. The first academic studies of the language date back to the 1970's and although several academic papers have been written in the past 25 years, no one has taken the initiative to create a dictionary.The typical process in documenting an oral language is the translation of the Bible, but that has not been done yet in the case of Kolokwa. Gullah, which is a close sister-language has a New Testament which was completed in 2005. Jamaican Patois also now has a Bible translation, completed in 2012. While the number of native speakers of Gullah is probably less than 1,000 and Jamaican Patois has 3 million speakers, the estimates for Kolokwa speakers reach 1.6 million people.
Some Terms from Liberian Speech
Author: Warren L. D'Azevedo
Publisher:
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Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 100
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Investigating the Case of Pidgin Liberian English
Author: Elena Agathokleous
Publisher: GRIN Verlag
ISBN: 3346366839
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 7
Book Description
Essay from the year 2018 in the subject Speech Science / Linguistics, grade: A, , language: English, abstract: The paper discusses the formation of pidgin Liberian English. A Pidgin language is a language created from the need of people with different native languages to communicate. Pidgin languages are often created to serve one specific purpose. Most often a Pidgin facilitates people that want to trade or serves as a way of understanding between settlers and natives in cases of colonization. A Pidgin language is one that has no native speakers. If it acquires native speakers by children growing up having the specific language as their native language, then it is categorized as a Creole language.
Publisher: GRIN Verlag
ISBN: 3346366839
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 7
Book Description
Essay from the year 2018 in the subject Speech Science / Linguistics, grade: A, , language: English, abstract: The paper discusses the formation of pidgin Liberian English. A Pidgin language is a language created from the need of people with different native languages to communicate. Pidgin languages are often created to serve one specific purpose. Most often a Pidgin facilitates people that want to trade or serves as a way of understanding between settlers and natives in cases of colonization. A Pidgin language is one that has no native speakers. If it acquires native speakers by children growing up having the specific language as their native language, then it is categorized as a Creole language.
An Introduction to Liberian English
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 260
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
An International Bibliography of African Lexicons
Author: Melvin K. Hendrix
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
ISBN: 9780810814783
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 382
Book Description
Contains 3,500 entries, representing almost 700 African languages and over 200 dialects, spanning over 400 years of African lexicographical writing and research.
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
ISBN: 9780810814783
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 382
Book Description
Contains 3,500 entries, representing almost 700 African languages and over 200 dialects, spanning over 400 years of African lexicographical writing and research.