28.991, Books: Kisangani Swahili: Nassenstein

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Subject: 28.991, Books: Kisangani Swahili: Nassenstein

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Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2017 16:28:08
From: Ulrich Lueders [lincom.europa at t-online.de]
Subject: Kisangani Swahili: Nassenstein

Title: Kisangani Swahili 
Subtitle: Choices and Variation in a Multilingual Urban Space 
Series Title: Languages of the World/Materials 506  

Publication Year: 2017 
Publisher: Lincom GmbH
	   http://www.lincom-shop.eu

Book URL: http://lincom-shop.eu/LWM-506-Kisangani-Swahili-e-book/en 

Author: Nico Nassenstein

Electronic: ISBN:  9783862887859 Pages: 261 Price: Europe EURO 78.80 Comment: available from lincom-shop.eu

Abstract:

Editor’s Note: This is a new edition of a previously announced book.

The emergence of complex language practices in multilingual settings of urban
Africa and the study of speakers’ broad linguistic repertoires have
increasingly moved into the academic focus of linguists over the past couple
of years. Kisangani Swahili constitutes a fluid urban practice spoken in the
convergence area of Lingala and Swahili in the city of Kisangani, but also
throughout Tshopo District (Province Orientale, DR Congo) by more than a
million people. Swahili as spoken in Kisangani has developed into a variety
marked by speakers’ linguistic choices, indexing speakers’ potential
underlying knowledge of Lingala and French. While the influence from French
has mainly affected Kisangani Swahili at a lexical level, Lingala and to a
minor extent also non-Bantu languages such as Zande have significantly
contributed to morphosyntactic variation in the variety. The complementary
geographical distribution of the two languages, Lingala and Swahili, in
different neighborhoods of the same city, has led to fluid phonological,
morphological and syntactic pools of choices in today’s Swahili that display
speakers’ ideological concepts of self-revelation and orientation.

The present grammar of Kisangani Swahili can be considered the first
grammatical description of this urban variety, focusing predominantly on
language convergence, metatypy and irregularity in language, analyzed from a
variationist sociolinguistic angle, and pursuing an emic approach in the
documentation of Swahili. Phenomena such as conscious structural adaptability
toward either ‘standardized’ Swahili or Lingala and calquing as strategies of
linguistic agency are particularly dealt with in the present sketch, marking
speakers’ linguistic identity. Besides the sociolinguistic setting, the
phonological inventory and morphosyntactic structure of the language, a
pragmatic analysis as well as a selection of texts and a word list conclude
the description of this urban Congo Swahili regiolect.

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics
                     Language Documentation
                     Pragmatics
                     Sociolinguistics

Subject Language(s): Swahili, Congo (swc)

Written In: English  (eng)

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http://linguistlist.org/pubs/books/get-book.cfm?BookID=112413

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