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Gender and Language in Sub-Saharan Africa

Tradition, struggle and change

Edited by Lilian Lem Atanga, Sibonile Edith Ellece, Lia Litosseliti and Jane Sunderland

University of Dschang, Cameroon / University of Botswana / City University London / University of Lancaster

Gender and Language in Sub-Saharan Africa: Tradition, Struggle and Change is the first book to bring together the topics of language and gender, African languages, and gender in African contexts, and it does so in a descriptive, explanatory and critical way. Including fascinating new work and new, often challenging data from Botswana, Chad, Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria and South Africa, this collection looks at some ‘traditional’ uses of language in relation to the gender of its speakers and the gendered nature of the languages themselves; it also identifies and explores social change in terms of both gender and sexuality, as reflected in and constructed by language and discourse. The contributions to this volume are accessibly written and will be of interest to students and established academics working on African sociolinguistics and discourse, as well as those whose interest is language, gender and sexuality.

Table of contents

Acknowledgements

Gender and language in sub-Saharan Africa: A valid epistemology?

Lilian Lem Atanga, Sibonile Edith Ellece, Lia Litosseliti and Jane Sunderland

Part 1. Gender and linguistic description

Chapter 1. Issues of language and gender in iweto marriage as practised by the Kamba in Kenya

Catherine Wawasi Kitetu and Angelina Nduku Kioko

Chapter 2. Language, gender and age(ism) in Setswana

Mompoloki Mmangaka Bagwasi and Jane Sunderland

Chapter 3. Variation with gender in the tonal speech varieties of Kera (Chadic)

Mary Pearce

Part 2. Public settings and gendered language use

Chapter 4. Language, gender and social construction in a pre-school in Gaborone

Rose Letsholo

Chapter 5. Variation in address forms for Nigerian married and unmarried women in the workplace

Abolaji S. Mustapha

Part 3. Mediated masculinities and femininities

Chapter 6. A new South African man? Beer, masculinity and social change

Tommaso M. Milani and Mooniq Shaikjee

Chapter 7. The ‘Tinto’ image in contemporary Tswana songs: Masculinities in crisis?

Sibonile Edith Ellece

Chapter 8.Language and gender in popular music in Botswana

Rosaleen O.B. Nhlekisana

Part 4. Gendered struggles and change

Chapter 9. Sex discourses and the construction of gender identity in Sesotho: A case study of police interviews of rape/sexual assault victims

Puleng Hanong Thetela

Chapter 10. Student Pidgin: A masculine code encroached on by young women

Kari Dako

Chapter 11. Gendered linguistic choices among isiZulu-speaking women in contemporary South Africa

Stephanie Rudwick

Chapter 12. Homophobic language and linguistic resistance in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

Thabo Msibi

Chapter 13. "I cannot be blamed for my own assault": Ghanaian media discourses on the context of blame in Mzbel’s sexual assaults

Grace Diabah

Part 5. Epilogue

African feminism?

Lilian Lem Atanga

Gender, sexuality and language in African contexts: Bibliography

Dr Lia Litosseliti
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Senior Lecturer in Linguistics & Programme Director for BSc (Hons) Speech and Language Therapy
Department of Language and Communication Science
City University London
Northampton Square
London EC1V 0HB
UK

l.litosseliti at city.ac.uk<mailto:l.litosseliti at city.ac.uk>
http://www.city.ac.uk/health/staff-directory/lia-litosseliti

President of the International Gender and Language Association (IGALA) -  http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/organisations/igala/Index.html

Associate Editor of Gender and Language - http://www.equinoxjournals.com/GL/index<http://www.equinoxjournals.com/GL/index>

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