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Transgressing Frontiers

by Kelvin Ngong Toh

Shifting Rhetorics in Linguistic and Literary Discourses The focus of this book is to assess, through language and literary studies in interpretation, the epistemic…

Language and Linguistics Media & Communication Studies Social Sciences

Linguistic and Sociolinguistic Perspectives of Youth Language Practices in Africa: Codes and Identity Writings

by Gratien G. Atindogbé and Augustin Emmanuel Ebongue

With the demographic explosion of young people in major African cities, we are witnessing the emergence of youth languages and new speech forms. In…

Dictionaries Language and Linguistics Reference Books West Africa

English – Lekongho Dictionary

by Sentemong Mehpah

In 2005, a United Nations study reported that half of the world’s languages (estimated at 6,000) would disappear by the end of this century.…

Essays Language and Linguistics

Proceedings of the 7th World Congress of African Linguistics, Buea, 17-21 August 2012

by Gratien G. Atindogbé and Evelyn Fogwe Chibaka

Volume One This book is a composite of 40 purely scientific and peer-reviewed papers presented during the Seventh World Congress of African Linguistics (WOCAL7)…

Essays Language and Linguistics

Proceedings of the 7th World Congress of African Linguistics, Buea, 17-21 August 2012

by Gratien G. Atindogbé and Evelyn Fogwe Chibaka

Volume Two This book is a composite of 40 purely scientific and peer-reviewed papers presented during the Seventh World Congress of African Linguistics (WOCAL7)…

Language and Linguistics West Africa

Critical Perspectives on the Theory and Practice of Translating Camfranglais Literature

by Peter W. Vakunta

This study teases out the nexus between text typologies and translational paradigms. Camfranglais fictional works are not canonical texts; rather they find a niche…

Language and Linguistics West Africa

Kpewi Durorp

by Ekpe Inyang

Language of the Bororp of the Korup ethnic group Kpewi Durorp is the third attempt at bringing Durorp into the public domain, and is…

Dictionaries Language and Linguistics West Africa

Durorp-English Dictionary

by Ekpe Inyang

Durorp-English Dictionary is probably the first attempt at compiling a comprehensive Dictionary of Durorp, the language of the people of Korup. It is a…

Language and Linguistics Southern Africa

Shona Sentential Names

by Jacob Mapara

A Brief Overview This book draws on the case of the Shona and other Bantu people of Africa to argue that names are not…

Language and Linguistics West Africa

The Bafaw Language

by Emmanuel N. Chia, Vincent A. Tanda and Ayu’nwi N. Neba

Bantu A10 The Bafaw Language (Bantu A10) is a product of the language research programme of the Department of Linguistics of the University of…

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