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  • Naming and Othering in Africa

    Imagining Supremacy and Inferiority through Language

    by Sambulo Ndlovu ...
    Series series Routledge African Studies
    This book examines how names in Africa have been fashioned to create dominance and subjugation, inclusion and exclusion, others and self.Drawing on global and African examples, but with particular reference to Zimbabwe, the author demonstrates how names are used in class, race, ethnic, national, gender, sexuality, religious and business struggles in society as weapons by ingroups and outgroups. ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Gendered Dichotomies in African Youth Language and Language Practices: Urban and Rural Spaces, Virtual and Real-Life Gendered Discourses

    by Comfort Ojongkpot, Ellen Hurst-Harosh, Elisabeth Bi Maondo Abang, Eyo Mensah, Fridah Kananah Erastus, Lucile Ushupule, Paul Onanuga, Philip Rudd, Rasaq Ajadi, Romanus Aboh, Saudah Namyalo, Sambulo Ndlovu, Toyin Olasumbo Kolawole, Uta Reuster-Jahn, Josef Schmied ...
    Youth language data provides interesting perspectives on gender dynamics and gendered usage in society. However, the gender perspective has not received the deserved focus in youth language studies in Africa. This is partly due to the general perception that youth languages and classic youth language practices, such as slang and anti-language, are male-oriented. This collected volume focuses on ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

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  • What Is Sociolinguistics?

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    What is Sociolinguistics? is a tour through the major issues that define the field, such as region, status, gender, time, language attitudes, interaction, and style, while also exploring the sociolinguistics of multilingualism, culture and ethnicity, language contact, and education, all introduced with excitement, humor, and deep knowledge.Explores the sociolinguistics of multilingualism, culture ... Read more

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  • An Introduction to Sociolinguistics

    by Ronald Wardhaugh, Janet M. Fuller ...
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    AN INTRODUCTION TO SOCIOLINGUISTICSThe new eighth edition of An Introduction to Sociolinguistics brings this valuable, bestselling textbook up to date with the latest in sociolinguistic research and pedagogy, providing a broad overview of the study of language in social context with accessible coverage of major concepts, theories, methods, issues, and debates within the field. This leading text ... Read more

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  • Words of the World

    The Global Language System

    by Abram De Swaan ...
    This bold and accessible study of human languages and communication explores issues which are at the forefront of today's globalized society.The human species is divided into more than five thousand language groups that do not understand each other. And yet these groups constitute one coherent world language system, connected by multilingual speakers in a surprisingly powerful way. The chances of ... Read more

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  • What Is Sociolinguistics?

    by Gerard Van Herk ...
    Series series Linguistics in the World
    How is our language affected by our ethnicity, gender, and region? How are our conversations and other interactions structured? How does society view and regulate language? How do we use language to present ourselves to others? In this revised and updated second edition of the popular What Is Sociolinguistics? Gerard Van Herk explores these and other intriguing questions about language, how we use ... Read more

    $38.00 USD

  • Sociolinguistics

    The Study of Speakers' Choices

    by Florian Coulmas ...
    Why do we speak the way we do? What are the social factors that influence our choices of expression? This best-selling introduction to the study of language and society encourages students to think about these fundamental questions, asking how and why we select from the vast range of different words, accents, varieties and languages available to us. In this new and updated edition, students are ... Read more

    $49.19 USD

  • The Sociolinguistics of Globalization

    by Jan Blommaert ...
    Series series Cambridge Approaches to Language Contact
    Human language has changed in the age of globalization: no longer tied to stable and resident communities, it moves across the globe, and it changes in the process. The world has become a complex 'web' of villages, towns, neighbourhoods and settlements connected by material and symbolic ties in often unpredictable ways. This phenomenon requires us to revise our understanding of linguistic ... Read more

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  • Critical Terms for the Study of Africa

    Edited by Gaurav Desai, Adeline Masquelier ...
    An essay collection about African culture that "moves beyond myth busting and challenges the reader to think more deeply" ( CHOICE ).For far too long, the Western world viewed Africa as unmappable terrain—a repository for outsiders' wildest imaginings. This problematic notion has had lingering effects not only on popular impressions of the region but also on the development of the academic study ... Read more

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  • Justice and Reconciliation in Post-Apartheid South Africa

    Edited by François du du Bois, Antje du du Bois-Pedain ...
    Series series Cambridge Studies in Law and Society
    Justice and Reconciliation in Post-Apartheid South Africa assesses the transitional processes under way since the early 1990s to create a stable and just society. Change in South Africa is often credited to the efforts of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), but the work of this institution forms but a facet of a much broader picture. This book looks at the steps which accompanied and ... Read more

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  • African Minorities in the New World

    Edited by Toyin Falola, Niyi Afolabi ...
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