| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 426 pages) |
| Contents |
1. Toward an Interdisciplinary Perspective on Language Movement and Change / Ericka A. Albaugh and Kathryn M. de Luna -- Part I: Describing and Classifying Language Movement and Change2. Language Change and Movement as Seen by Historical Linguistics / Derek Nurse ; 3. The Ethnologue and L2 Mapping / Kenneth S. Olson and M. Paul Lewis ; 4. Understanding Distributions of Chadic Languages: Archaeological Perspectives / Scott MacEachern ; 5. 800 Languages and Counting: Lessons from Survey Research across a Linguistically Diverse Continent / Carolyn Logan -- Part II: Forces of Fixity and Consolidation 6. Conquest and Contact in North African Languages / Moha Ennaji ; 7. Ajami Literacies of West Africa / Fallou Ngom ; 8. Vernacular Language and Political Imagination / Derek R. Peterson ; 9. Language Movement and Civil War in West Africa / Ericka A. Albaugh ; 10. How a Lingua Franca Spreads / Fiona Mc Laughlin -- Part III: Influences on Fragmentation, Transformation, and Recombination 11. Scales and Units: Language Movement and Change in Central Africa / Kathryn M. de Luna ; 12. Localizing the Global: The Wanderwörter of Nineteenth-Century South Central Africa / David M. Gordon ; 13. The Invisible Niche of AUYL / Phillip W. Rudd ; 14. Language Movement and Pragmatic Change in a Conflict Area: The Border Triangle of Uganda, Rwanda, and DR Congo / Nico Nassenstein -- Part IV: Traveling Remnants: African Languages and the Diaspora 15. The African Diaspora and Language: Movement, Borrowing, and Return / Maureen Warner-Lewis ; 16. Metaphors to Live By in the Diaspora: Conceptual Tropes and Ontological Wordplay among Central Africans in the Middle Passage and Beyond / Robert W. Slenes ; 17. Caribbean French-African Creole and African Metaphysics / Hanétha Vété-Congolo ; 18. Population Movements, Language Contact, Linguistic Diversity, Etc.: A Postscript / Salikoko S. Mufwene |
| Summary |
Many disciplines study language movement and change in Africa, but they rarely interact. Here, eighteen scholars from a range of disciplines explore differing conceptions of language movement in Africa through empirical case studies |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on January 22, 2018) |
| Subject |
Languages in contact -- Africa -- History
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Linguistic change -- Africa -- History
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African languages -- History
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Alphabets & Writing Systems.
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African languages.
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Languages in contact.
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Linguistic change.
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Africa.
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| Genre/Form |
History.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Albaugh, Ericka A., editor
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De Luna, Kathryn Michelle, editor
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| LC no. |
2017044859 |
| ISBN |
9780190657550 |
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0190657553 |
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9780190657574 |
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019065757X |
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9780190641924 |
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0190641924 |
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