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Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2016 14:58:02
From: Ulrich Lueders [lincom.europa at t-online.de]
Subject: Language, Literature and Culture in a Multilingual Society. Vol. I: Ndimele, Ahmad, Yakasai (eds.)
Title: Language, Literature and Culture in a Multilingual Society. Vol.
I
Series Title: Linguistics Edition 105
Publication Year: 2016
Publisher: Lincom GmbH
http://www.lincom-shop.eu
Book URL: http://bit.ly/1UOMNqv
Editor: O.-M. Ndimele
Editor: M. Ahmad
Editor: H.M. Yakasai
Paperback: ISBN: 9783862886722 Pages: 584 Price: Europe EURO 90.80
Abstract:
The book contains 77 papers (published in two volumes) meticulously selected
from over 150 papers read at 24th Annual Conference of the Linguistic
Association of Nigeria.
Table of Contents:
- The Linguistic Association of Nigeria (LAN) and the Promotion of Language
and Linguistics (Ayo Bamgbose)
- Using Africa’s Indigenous Languages as Tools for Sustainable Development: A
Pragmatic Approach (Kola Owolabi)
- Variations in Transmission of Message of Proverb between Hausa & Swahili
Cultures (Xahiru Muhammad Argungu)
- The Mass Media as an Agent of Cultural Transmission and Globalization: The
Language Perspective (Sadiya Sani Daura)
- Towards Investigating Perceived Endangerment Status of the Igala Language
(Joseph Abuh)
- Body Language as Social Dialect in Hausa Culture (Aliyu Mu’azu)
- A Semantic Study of Obscenity and Verbal Abuses in Jukun (Butari Nahum
Upah)
- Honorifics in Igala (Abdullahi Ahmad)
- Semantic Changes: An Annotative Exploration of Select Hausa Political
Coinages (Khalid Imam)
- Language in National Development: The Nigerian Perspective (Ndubuisi
Ogbonna Ahamefula)
- Religion: The Cultural Language of Order & Stability in Society
(Bartholomew Chidili)
- Study Hausa, Understand Kanakuru (Paul Newman)
- An Overview of the Procedures & Guidelines for the Development & Approval
of Orthographies of Nigerian Languages (Garba D. Gandu)
- NEEDS Analysis of Igbo for Specific Purposes: The Case of Non-Igbo Speaking
Youth Corps Members (Ndubuisi O. Ahamefula & Evelyn Ezinwanne Mbah)
- Endangered Languages and Strategies for their Preservation in Nigeria
(Ramlatu Jibir Daura)
- Towards a Stable Orthography for Urhobo (Odirin Victor Abonyi)
- Computerization and Preservation of West African Pre-colonial Manuscripts:
A Case Study of Hausa Ajami (Yakubu Aliyu Gobir)
- The Use of Adjuncts in Descriptive & Narrative Essays: A Comparative
Analysis of Some Students’ Essays (Bala Xanyaro Aminu)
- Symbolic Values of Language in the Context of Globalization (Nina Pawlak)
- Digging their Graves; Burying their Dead; & Writing their Epitaphs:
Feminism, Womanism, & Northern Nigeria’s Women Writers (Ibrahim A. M.
Malumfashi)
- Culture, Language & the Meaning of Colour Terms in three Nigerian
Languages: A Study of Idiomatic & Metaphorical Usages (Rabi Abdulsalam
Ibrahim)
– etc.
Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics
Pragmatics
Sociolinguistics
Writing Systems
Subject Language(s): Hausa (hau)
Igala (igl)
Igbo (ibo)
Jukun Takum (jbu)
Swahili (swh)
Urhobo (urh)
Written In: English (eng)
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