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Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2018 14:39:34
From: Celine Aenlle-Rocha [Celine.Aenlle-Rocha at oup.com]
Subject: Tracing Language Movement in Africa: Albaugh, de Luna (eds.)

 


Title: Tracing Language Movement in Africa 
Publication Year: 2018 
Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Book URL: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/tracing-language-movement-in-africa-9780190657543 


Editor: Erika A. Albaugh
Editor: Kathryn M. de Luna

Hardback: ISBN:  9780190657543 Pages:  Price: ----  


Abstract:

Many disciplines have looked carefully at language movement and change on the
continent, but their lack of interaction has prevented the emergence of a
cohesive picture of African languages. Tracing Language Movement in Africa
gathers eighteen scholars together to offer a truly multidisciplinary
representation of language in Africa, combining insights from history,
archaeology, religion, linguistics, political science, and philosophy. The
resulting volume illuminates commonalities and distinctions in these
disciplines' understanding of language change and movement in Africa. The
volume is empirical -- aiming to represent language more accurately on the
continent -- as well as theoretical. It identifies the theories that each
discipline uses to make sense of language movement in Africa in plain terms
and highlights the themes that cut across all disciplines: how scholars use
data, understand boundaries, represent change, and conceptualize power. The
volume is organized to reflect differing conceptions of language that arise
from its discipline-specific contributions: that is, tendencies to study
changes that consolidate language or those that splinter it, viewing languages
as whole or in part. 

Each contribution includes a short explanation of a discipline's theoretical
and methodological approaches to language movement and change to ensure that
the chapters are accessible to non-specialists, followed by an illustrative
empirical case study. This volume will inspire multidisciplinary conversations
around the study of language change in Africa, opening new interdisciplinary
dialogue and spurring scholars to adapt the questions, data, and method of
other disciplines to the problems that animate their own fields.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics
                     Sociolinguistics


Written In: English  (eng)

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