Germanic Standardizations

Germanic Standardizations
Author: Ana Deumert
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages: 494
Release: 2003-01-01
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9789027218568

This volume presents a comparative, socio-historical study of the Germanic standard languages (Afrikaans, Danish, Dutch, English, Faroese, Frisian, German, Icelandic, Low German, Luxemburgish, Norwegian, Scots, Swedish, Yiddish as well as the Caribbean and Pacific Creole languages). Each of the 16 orginal chapters systematically discusses central aspects of the standardization process, including dialect selection, codification, elaboration and diffusion of the standard norm across the speech community, as well as incipient processes of de-standardization and re-standardization. The strongly comparative orientation of the contributions allow for the identification of broad similarities as well as intriguing differences across a wide range of historically and socially diverse language histories. Two chapters by the editors provide an overview of the theoretical background and rationale of comparative standardization research, and outline directions for further research in the area. The volume will be of interest to language historians as well as sociolinguists in general.

The Idea of Africa

The Idea of Africa
Author: V. Y. Mudimbe
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Total Pages: 260
Release: 1994-11-22
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780253208729

"... this is a remarkable book. It will occupy a significant place in the critical literature of African Studies." --International Journal of African Historical Studies "To read Mudimbe is to walk through a museum of many exhibits in the company of an erudite companion who explains, with much learned commentary, what you are seeing." --American Anthropologist "Mudimbe's sympathetic yet rigorous accounts of such diverse Africanist discourses as Herskovits's cultural relativism and contemporary Afrocentricity bring to the surface the underlying goals and contexts in which these were produced." --Ivan Karp A sequel to his highly acclaimed The Invention of Africa, this is V. Y. Mudimbe's exploration of how the "idea" of Africa was constructed by the Western world.

Patriot woordeboek

Patriot woordeboek
Author: H. J. J. M. Van der Merwe
Publisher:
Total Pages: 296
Release: 1902
Genre: Afrikaans language
ISBN:

The Invention of Africa

The Invention of Africa
Author: V. Y. Mudimbe
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Total Pages: 260
Release: 1988
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 9780852552032

What is the meaning of Africa and of being African? What is and what is not African philosophy? Is philosophy part of Africanism? These are the kind of fundamental questions which this book addresses. North America: Indiana U Press

The Development of Afrikaans

The Development of Afrikaans
Author: Friedrich Albert Ponelis
Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften
Total Pages: 648
Release: 1993
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN:

The development of Afrikaans is investigated within its sociohistorical context from the beginnings of the Afrikaans speech community in the 17th century to the present. Language contact in the loose and heterogeneous early Cape society gave rise to a divergent variety of Dutch later to be named Afrikaans. There was extensive borrowing as well as creolisation due to the strong presence of foreigners who had to acquire Dutch rapidly and under adverse social conditions. Changes in the linguistic core and functions of Afrikaans are set forth in a number of chapters.

History, languages, and lexicographers

History, languages, and lexicographers
Author: Ladislav Zgusta
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 164
Release: 2017-08-21
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 3111341070

Lexicographica. Series Maior features monographs and edited volumes on the topics of lexicography and meta-lexicography. Works from the broader domain of lexicology are also included, provided they strengthen the theoretical, methodological and empirical basis of lexicography and meta-lexicography. The almost 150 books published in the series since its founding in 1984 clearly reflect the main themes and developments of the field. The publications focus on aspects of lexicography such as micro- and macrostructure, typology, history of the discipline, and application-oriented lexicographical documentation.

Doing Conceptual History in Africa

Doing Conceptual History in Africa
Author: Axel Fleisch
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Total Pages: 230
Release: 2018-02-21
Genre: History
ISBN: 1785339524

Employing an innovative methodological toolkit, Doing Conceptual History in Africa provides a refreshingly broad and interdisciplinary approach to African historical studies. The studies assembled here focus on the complex role of language in Africa’s historical development, with a particular emphasis on pragmatics and semantics. From precolonial dynamics of wealth and poverty to the conceptual foundations of nationalist movements, each contribution strikes a balance between the local and the global, engaging with a distinctively African intellectual tradition while analyzing the regional and global contexts in which categories like “work,” “marriage,” and “land” take shape.