[PDF] Linguistic Field Notes From Banda eBook

Author : Mary E. Kropp Dakubu
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 42,57 MB
Release : 2015-06-03
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1317406036

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First published in 1988, this book provides an easily accessible handbook of knowledge about the languages of Ghana; their geographical distribution, their relationships with each other, the social patterns of their use, and their structures. Besides the general introduction, it contains chapters on each of the individually recognised families of languages spoken in Ghana: Gur, Volta-Comoé, Gbe, Ga-Dangme, Central-Tongo and Mande. An additional chapter outlines the use of non-indigenous languages in the country.

Author : M. A. Bryan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 667 pages
File Size : 48,96 MB
Release : 2017-09-20
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1351598716

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This book, originally published in 1966, deals mainly with morphemes and with grammatical and syntactic behaviour. Although some vocabulary material is contained in this volume, and some more in the Linguistic Survey of the Northern Bantu Borderland, vocabulary comparison itself plays little part. The volume presents an overall picture of the working of representative languages from each section of the Handbook and provides grammatical material which will help future students in classifying the languages to their typological as apart from their lexical features.

Author : Mary Esther Kropp Dakubu
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 18,52 MB
Release : 1997-02-13
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0195345185

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Ghana has played a key role in African/Western relations since medieval times. For this reason and others, Ghana has evolved into a linguistic quilt that contains forty-four indigenous languages and several exotic ones, of which most Ghanians speak at least two. Using Accra, Ghana's capital, as a microcosm, Dakubu conducts a linguistic, historical, and ethnographic investigation of the origins and durability of this multilingualism and how it has effected Ghanaian society.

Author : Laura Siragusa
Publisher : Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 46,17 MB
Release : 2020-08-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9518582106

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This volume includes chapters by junior and senior scholars hailing from Europe, Asia, North America, and Oceania, all of whom sought to understand the social and cultural implications surrounding how people take responsibility for the ways they speak or write in relation to a place—whether it is one they have long resided in, recently moved to, or left a long time ago. The contributors to the volume investigate ‘responsibility’ in and through language practices as inspired by the roots of the (English) word itself: the ability to respond, or mount a response to a situation at hand. It is thus a ‘responsive’ kind of responsibility, one that focuses not only on demonstrating responsibility for language, but highlighting the various ways we respond to situations discursively and metalinguistically. This sort of responsibility is both part of individual and collectively negotiated concerns that shift as people contend with processes related to globalization.

Author : Melvin K. Hendrix
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 38,52 MB
Release : 1982
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780810814783

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Contains 3,500 entries, representing almost 700 African languages and over 200 dialects, spanning over 400 years of African lexicographical writing and research.