33.166, Books: The Cambridge Handbook of African Linguistics: Wolff (ed.)

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Subject: 33.166, Books: The Cambridge Handbook of African Linguistics: Wolff (ed.)

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Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2022 08:46:49
From: Eleanor Hennerley [ehennerley at cambridge.org]
Subject: The Cambridge Handbook of African Linguistics: Wolff (ed.)

Title: The Cambridge Handbook of African Linguistics 
Publication Year: 2021 
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
	   http://www.cambridge.org/linguistics

Book URL: https://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/languages-linguistics/african-and-caribbean-language-and-linguistics/cambridge-handbook-african-linguistics?format=PB 

Editor: H. Ekkehard Wolff

Paperback: ISBN:  9781108406185 Pages:  Price: U.S. $ 44.99
Paperback: ISBN:  9781108406185 Pages:  Price: U.K. £ 35.99
Paperback: ISBN:  9781108406185 Pages:  Price: Europe EURO 42.00

Abstract:

Editor's Note: This is a new edition of a previously announced title.

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.

Introduction; 1. African linguistics: conceptions and scope H. Ekkehard Wolff;
Part I. Short Regional Histories of African Linguistics: 2. African
linguistics in Europe Arvi Hurskainen, Roland Kießling, Nina Pawlak and
Alexander Zheltov; 3. African linguistics in North and so-called Francophone
Africa Abderrahman el Aissati, Yamina el Kirat el Allame and Philip Ngessimo
Mathe Mutaka; 4. African linguistics in North-Eastern and so-called Anglophone
Africa Akinbiyi Akinlabi, Bruce Connell, Angelika Jakobi, Amani Lusekelo,
Ronny Meyer, Marie-Claude Simeone-Senelle and Wolbert Smidt; 5. African
linguistics in so-called Lusophone and Hispanophone Africa, and in Southern
Africa Sonja Bosch, Inge Kosch and Anne-Maria Fehn; 6. African linguistics in
the Americas, Asia, and Australia G. Tucker Childs, Margarida Petter, Shigeki
Kaji, John Hajek, Sun Xiaomeng and Yang Chul-Joon; Part II. Comparative and
Descriptive African Linguistics: 7. Comparative African linguistics Gerrit J.
Dimmendaal; 8. A typological and areal perspective on African languages Bernd
Heine; 9. Niger-Congo linguistic features and typology Larry M. Hyman,
Nicholas Rolle, Hannah Sande, Emily Clem, Peter S. E. Jenks, Florian Lionnet,
John Merrill and Nicholas Baier; 10. Afroasiatic linguistic features and
typologies Ronny Meyer and H. Ekkehard Wolff; 11. Linguistic features and
typologies in languages commonly referred to as 'Nilo-Saharan' Gerrit J.
Dimmendaal, Colleen Ahland, Angelika Jakobi and Constance Kutsch Lojenga; 12.
Linguistic features and typologies in languages commonly referred to as
'Khoisan' Alena Witzlack-Makarevich and Hirosi Nakagawa; Part III. African
Languages in Cultures and Societies: 13. Sociocultural and political settings
of language in Africa Alamin Mazrui; 14. In and out of Africa: the
sociolinguistics of European and Asian languages in Africa and of the African
diaspora Rajend Mesthrie; 15. Language endangerment and language documentation
in Africa Friederike Lüpke; 16. Situated language use in Africa Sigurd
D'hondt; 17. Special-purpose registers of language in Africa Alice Mitchell
and Ayu'nwi N. Neba; 18. African languages in urban contexts Andrea Hollington
and Nico Nassenstein; 19. African languages and mobile communication: between
constraint and creativity Ana Deumert, Ivan Panoviæ, Dorothy Agyepong and
David Barasa; Part IV. Applied Perspectives in African Linguistics: 20.
Multilingualism and education in Africa Kathleen Heugh; 21.
Intellectualisation of African languages: past, present and future Russell H.
Kaschula and Dion Nkomo: 22. African languages and human language technologies
Justus C. Roux and H. Steve Ndinga-Koumba-Binza.

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics
                     Historical Linguistics

Written In: English  (eng)

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http://linguistlist.org/pubs/books/get-book.cfm?BookID=158857

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