{"product_id":"the-cambridge-handbook-of-african-linguistics-hardback-9781108417983","title":"The Cambridge Handbook of African Linguistics (Hardback) 9781108417983","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Cambridge Handbook of African Linguistics\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAn in-depth and far-reaching account of the study of 'African languages' and 'language in Africa' as an autonomous academic discipline.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eH. Ekkehard Wolff (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781108417983, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 16 May 2019\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e834 pages\u003cbr\u003e25.3 x 18 x 4 cm, 1.81 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThis book provides an in-depth and comprehensive state-of-the-art study of 'African languages' and 'language in Africa' since its beginnings as a 'colonial science' at the turn of the twentieth century in Europe. Compiled by 56 internationally renowned scholars, this ground breaking study looks at past and current research on 'African languages' and 'language in Africa' under the impact of paradigmatic changes from 'colonial' to 'postcolonial' perspectives. It addresses current trends in the study of the role and functions of language, African and other, in pre- and postcolonial African societies. Highlighting the central role that the 'language factor' plays in postcolonial transformation processes of sociocultural modernization and economic development, it also addresses more recent, particularly urban, patterns of communication, and outlines applied dimensions of digitalization and human language technology.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e 1. African linguistics: conceptions and scope H. Ekkehard Wolff\u003cbr\u003e Part I. Short Regional Histories of African Linguistics: 2. African linguistics in Europe Arvi Hurskainen, Roland Kießling, Nina Pawlak and Alexander Zheltov\u003cbr\u003e 3. African linguistics in North and so-called Francophone Africa Abderrahman el Aissati, Yamina el Kirat el Allame and Philip Ngessimo Mathe Mutaka\u003cbr\u003e 4. African linguistics in North-Eastern and so-called Anglophone Africa Akinbiyi Akinlabi, Bruce Connell, Angelika Jakobi, Amani Lusekelo, Ronny Meyer, Marie-Claude Simeone-Senelle and Wolbert Smidt\u003cbr\u003e 5. African linguistics in so-called Lusophone and Hispanophone Africa, and in Southern Africa Sonja Bosch, Inge Kosch and Anne-Maria Fehn\u003cbr\u003e 6. African linguistics in the Americas, Asia, and Australia G. Tucker Childs, Margarida Petter, Shigeki Kaji, John Hajek, Sun Xiaomeng and Yang Chul-Joon\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Comparative and Descriptive African Linguistics: 7. Comparative African linguistics Gerrit J. Dimmendaal\u003cbr\u003e 8. A typological and areal perspective on African languages Bernd Heine\u003cbr\u003e 9. Niger-Congo linguistic features and typology Larry M. Hyman, Nicholas Rolle, Hannah Sande, Emily Clem, Peter S. E. Jenks, Florian Lionnet, John Merrill and Nicholas Baier\u003cbr\u003e 10. Afroasiatic linguistic features and typologies Ronny Meyer and H. Ekkehard Wolff\u003cbr\u003e 11. Linguistic features and typologies in languages commonly referred to as 'Nilo-Saharan' Gerrit J. Dimmendaal, Colleen Ahland, Angelika Jakobi and Constance Kutsch Lojenga\u003cbr\u003e 12. Linguistic features and typologies in languages commonly referred to as 'Khoisan' Alena Witzlack-Makarevich and Hirosi Nakagawa\u003cbr\u003e Part III. African Languages in Cultures and Societies: 13. Sociocultural and political settings of language in Africa Alamin Mazrui\u003cbr\u003e 14. In and out of Africa: the sociolinguistics of European and Asian languages in Africa and of the African diaspora Rajend Mesthrie\u003cbr\u003e 15. Language endangerment and language documentation in Africa Friederike Lüpke\u003cbr\u003e 16. Situated language use in Africa Sigurd D'hondt\u003cbr\u003e 17. Special-purpose registers of language in Africa Alice Mitchell and Ayu'nwi N. Neba\u003cbr\u003e 18. African languages in urban contexts Andrea Hollington and Nico Nassenstein\u003cbr\u003e 19. African languages and mobile communication: between constraint and creativity Ana Deumert, Ivan Panoviæ, Dorothy Agyepong and David Barasa\u003cbr\u003e Part IV. Applied Perspectives in African Linguistics: 20. Multilingualism and education in Africa Kathleen Heugh\u003cbr\u003e 21. Intellectualisation of African languages: past, present and future Russell H. Kaschula and Dion Nkomo: 22. African languages and human language technologies Justus C. Roux and H. 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