Author: Publisher: KARTHALA Editions
ISBN: 2811109943
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1684
Book Description
Author: Publisher: KARTHALA Editions
ISBN: 2811109943
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1684
Book Description
Crossing Linguistic Borders in Postcolonial Anglophone Africa
Author: Jemima AndersonPublisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1443870994
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
The papers collected in this volume discuss applied, pedagogical and ideological issues related to language use in selected countries in post-colonial Anglophone Africa. The collection represents new voices in linguistics from Cameroon, Ghana, Kenya and Nigeria, and is structured in four sections, covering the following themes: • languages in contact • language identity, ideology and policy • communication and issues of intelligibility • language in education The volume discusses the linguistic paradoxes and complexities that have emerged from the contact between English, (and/or) French and indigenous African languages. Some of the papers collected here discuss the characteristics, functions and peculiarities of the emerging varieties of languages that have developed in these post-colonial African States. Furthermore, the book offers empirical data on up-to-date research drawn from the expertise of budding and established scholars in the areas under discussion, and demonstrates the rich body of research that is developing in post-colonial Africa. Some of the areas covered in this volume include the linguistic products of bilingualism in Cameroon, Ghana, Kenya, and new linguistic and sociocultural borders of Cameroonian Pidgin-Creole, which bridge the ideological gap between English and French speaking communities in Cameroon, unofficial language policy and language planning in the country and discourse choices in Cameroonian English. This book is an ideal resource for graduate students and researchers interested in the areas of sociolinguistics, applied linguistics, discourse analysis and World Englishes.
Postcolonial Francophone Autobiographies
Author: Edgard SankaraPublisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 0813931762
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
Bringing a comparative perspective to the study of autobiography, Edgard Sankara considers a cross-section of postcolonial francophone writing from Africa and the Caribbean in order to examine and compare for the first time their transnational reception. Sankara not only compares the ways in which a wide selection of autobiographies were received locally (as well as in France) but also juxtaposes reception by the colonized and the colonizer to show how different meanings were assigned to the works after publication. Sankara’s geographical and cultural coverage of Africa and its diaspora is rich, with separate chapters devoted to the autobiographies of Hampâté Bâ, Valentin Mudimbé, Kesso Barry, Patrick Chamoiseau, Raphaël Confiant, and Maryse Condé. The author combines close reading, reception study, and postcolonial theory to present an insightful survey of the literary connections among these autobiographers as well as a useful point of departure for further exploration of the genre itself, of the role of reception studies in postcolonial criticism, and of the stance that postcolonial francophone writers choose to take regarding their communities of origin. Modern Language Initiative
La question linguistique et l'Etat postcolonial
Author: Beddy EbnouPublisher: Editions L'Harmattan
ISBN: 2140071905
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : fr
Pages : 82
Book Description
La langue est un enjeu crucial de domination ou d'exclusion. On comprend alors la grande sensibilité que suscite la question de la langue arabe en Mauritanie. D'un côté, s'opposer à la promotion de la langue arabe ou à celle d'autres langues nationales relève d'une attitude inconséquente et puérile. De l'autre, s'opposer aux langues étrangères (le français par exemple) est une attitude absurde. Oeuvrer pour qu'une langue étrangère soit substituée à une langue nationale est également un acte peu réaliste dont le seul résultat possible est de détourner les générations montantes de leur tâche : le développement humain.
Francophone Postcolonial Studies
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Category : French literature
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
The Politics of Language in Colonial and Postcolonial Discourses
Author: Elena AgathokleousPublisher: GRIN Verlag
ISBN: 3346395545
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 10
Book Description
Essay from the year 2021 in the subject Speech Science / Linguistics, grade: A, , language: English, abstract: In this essay the various ways through which colonials imposed imperial languages are presented followed by examples of how postcolonial responses on the issue of language might have varied but shared the goal of declaring resistance and reclaiming indigenous identities. In colonial and postcolonial discourse, language has a central role since language has the power to shape people’s perception of the world. Language was used during colonization as a tool which could influence knowledge and understanding in many significant aspects of life such as politics, economics and social environment. However, language has been used by both colonials as a means for establishing their domination but also by post-colonial individuals in order to reclaim their cultural identities after emancipation.
Colonial and Decolonial Linguistics
Author: Ana DeumertPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192511661
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
This wide-ranging volume offers a detailed exploration of coloniality in the discipline of linguistics, with case studies drawn from Africa, Southeast Asia, Europe, and the Caribbean. Colonial meanings and legacies have returned to the forefront of many academic fields in recent years and linguistics, like several other disciplines, has had an ambivalent relationship with its own histories of practice in colonial and postcolonial worlds. The implications of these histories are still felt today, as colonial paradigms of knowledge production continue to shape both academic linguistic practices and non-specialist discussion of language and culture. The chapters in this volume adopt a range of different conceptual frameworks - including postcolonial theory, southern theory, and decolonial thinking - to provide a nuanced account of the coloniality of linguistics at the level of knowledge and disciplinary practice; crucially, the contributors also expand their investigations beyond this ambivalent inheritance to imagine a decolonial linguistics. The volume will be of interest to all linguists looking to critically assess their own practices and to engage with debates at the cutting-edge of their discipline, particularly in the areas of sociolinguistics, field linguistics, typology, and linguistic anthropology, as well as to those outside the discipline engaging with questions of coloniality.
The Empire Within
Author: Sean MillsPublisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0773583491
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 481
Book Description
In a brilliant history of a turbulent time and place, Mills pulls back the curtain on the decade's activists and intellectuals, showing their engagement both with each other and with people from around the world. He demonstrates how activists of different backgrounds and with different political aims drew on ideas of decolonization to rethink the meanings attached to the politics of sex, race, and class and to imagine themselves as part of a broad transnational movement of anti-colonial and anti-imperialist resistance. The temporary unity forged around ideas of decolonization came undone in the 1970s, however, as many were forced to come to terms with the contradictions and ambiguities of applying ideas of decolonization in Quebec. From linguistic debates to labour unions, and from the political activities of citizens in the city's poorest neighbourhoods to its Caribbean intellectuals, The Empire Within is a political tour of Montreal that reconsiders the meaning and legacy of the city's dissident traditions. It is also a fascinating chapter in the history of postcolonial thought.
African Journal of Political Science
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Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
Canadian Journal of African Studies
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ISBN:
Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 520
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