Dictionary Of Portuguese Loanwords In The Languages Of Sub Saharan Africa
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Author | : Sergio Baldi |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 371 |
Release | : 2023-10-16 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9004680780 |
The main purpose of this dictionary is twofold. On the one hand, it provides the scholar of African studies with a tool to identify the possible Portuguese origin of terms present in African languages and, on the other, it offers those who are interested in Portuguese culture an overview of the presence of its lexicon in African languages. No doubt the Portuguese were among the first Europeans to explore the world outside of Europe, and as such they were also the first to introduce that world to European concepts and words.This book is the result of a long and detailed work on texts in African languages, as also shown by the rich bibliography in the dictionary.
Author | : Jack Berry |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 988 |
Release | : 2017-08-21 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 3111562522 |
Author | : Chris S. Duvall |
Publisher | : Duke University Press |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 2019-05-09 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1478004533 |
After arriving from South Asia approximately a thousand years ago, cannabis quickly spread throughout the African continent. European accounts of cannabis in Africa—often fictionalized and reliant upon racial stereotypes—shaped widespread myths about the plant and were used to depict the continent as a cultural backwater and Africans as predisposed to drug use. These myths continue to influence contemporary thinking about cannabis. In The African Roots of Marijuana, Chris S. Duvall corrects common misconceptions while providing an authoritative history of cannabis as it flowed into, throughout, and out of Africa. Duvall shows how preexisting smoking cultures in Africa transformed the plant into a fast-acting and easily dosed drug and how it later became linked with global capitalism and the slave trade. People often used cannabis to cope with oppressive working conditions under colonialism, as a recreational drug, and in religious and political movements. This expansive look at Africa's importance to the development of human knowledge about marijuana will challenge everything readers thought they knew about one of the world's most ubiquitous plants.
Author | : Frederico Corriente |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 696 |
Release | : 2008-10-31 |
Genre | : Reference |
ISBN | : 904744311X |
One of the main cultural consequences of the contacts between Islam and the West has been the borrowing of hundreds of words, mostly of Arabic but also of other important languages of the Islamic world, such as Persian, Turkish, Berber, etc. by Western languages. Such loanwords are particularly abundant and relevant in the case of the Iberian Peninsula because of the presence of Islamic states in it for many centuries; their study is very revealing when it comes to assess the impact of those states in the emergence and shaping of Western civilization. Some famous Arabic scholars, above all R. Dozy, have tackled this task in the past, followed by other attempts at increasing and improving his pioneering work; however, the progresses achieved during the last quarter of the 20th c., in such fields as Andalusi and Andalusi Romance dialectology and lexicology made it necessary to update all the available information on this topic and to offer it in English.
Author | : Center for Applied Linguistics |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 556 |
Release | : 1976 |
Genre | : Languages, Modern |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Birgit Brock-Utne |
Publisher | : Symposium Books Ltd |
Total Pages | : 362 |
Release | : 2009-05-11 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 1873927177 |
The theme of this book cuts across disciplines. Contributors to this volume are specialized in education and especially classroom research as well as in linguistics, most being transdisciplinary themselves. Around 65 sub-Saharan languages figure in this volume as research objects: as means of instruction, in connection with teacher training, language policy, lexical development, harmonization efforts, information technology, oral literature and deaf communities. The co-existence of these African languages with English, French and Arabic is examined as well. This wide range of languages and subjects builds on recent field work, giving new empirical evidence from 17 countries: Botswana, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mozambique, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe, as well as to transnational matters like the harmonization of African transborder languages. As the Editors – a Norwegian social scientist and a Norwegian linguist, both working in Africa – have wanted to give room for African voices, the majority of contributions to this volume come from Africa.
Author | : Josef J. Schmied |
Publisher | : Longman Publishing Group |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : |
Introducing the subject of English in Africa, this book examines the usage of English in education and in African literature. The range of language forms and the attitudes towards English are discussed. The author considers the influence of English on African languages.
Author | : H. Ekkehard Wolff |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 377 |
Release | : 2019-06-13 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : 1108417973 |
The first global history of African linguistics as an emerging autonomous academic discipline, covering Africa, the Americas, Asia, Australia, and Europe.
Author | : Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 694 |
Release | : 1962 |
Genre | : African Americans |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Andrew Dalby |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 754 |
Release | : 2015-10-28 |
Genre | : Reference |
ISBN | : 1408102145 |
Covering the political, social and historical background of each language, Dictionary of Languages offers a unique insight into human culture and communication. Every language with official status is included, as well as all those that have a written literature and 175 'minor' languages with special historical or anthropological interest. We see how, with the rapidly increasing uniformity of our culture as media's influence spreads, more languages have become extinct or are under threat of extinction. The text is highlighted by maps and charts of scripts, while proverbs, anecdotes and quotations reveal the features that make a language unique.