Tracing Language Movement in Africa

著者名：Albaugh, Ericka A. (EDT)/de Luna, Kathryn M. (EDT)

Oxford University Press（2018/01/10発売）

• 言語：ENG
• ISBN：9780190657543
• eISBN：9780190657567

Description

The great diversity of ethnicities and languages in Africa encourages a vision of Africa as a fragmented continent, with language maps only perpetuating this vision by drawing discrete language groups. In reality, however, most people can communicate with most others within and across linguistic boundaries, even if not in languages taught or learned in schools.Many disciplines have looked carefully at language movement and change on the continent, but their lack of interaction has prevented the emergence of a cohesive picture of African languages. Tracing Language Movement in Africa gathers eighteen scholars together to offer a truly multidisciplinary representation of language in Africa, combining insights from history, archaeology, religion, linguistics, political science, and philosophy. The resulting volume illuminates commonalities and distinctions in these disciplines' understanding of language change and movement in Africa. The volume is empirical -- aiming to represent language more accurately on the continent -- as well as theoretical. It identifies the theories that each discipline uses to make sense of language movement in Africa in plain terms and highlights the themes that cut across all disciplines: how scholars use data, understand boundaries, represent change, and conceptualize power. The volume is organized to reflect differing conceptions of language that arise from its discipline-specific contributions: that is, tendencies to study changes that consolidate language or those that splinter it, viewing languages as whole or in part.Each contribution includes a short explanation of a discipline's theoretical and methodological approaches to language movement and change to ensure that the chapters are accessible to non-specialists, followed by an illustrative empirical case study. This volume will inspire multidisciplinary conversations around the study of language change in Africa, opening new interdisciplinary dialogue and spurring scholars to adapt the questions, data, and method of other disciplines to the problems that animate their own fields.

Table of Contents

1. Toward an Interdisciplinary Perspective on Language Movement and ChangeEricka A. Albaugh and Kathryn M. de LunaPart I: Describing and Classifying Language Movement and Change2. Language Change and Movement as Seen by Historical LinguisticsDerek Nurse3. The Ethnologue and L2 MappingKenneth S. Olson and M. Paul Lewis4. Understanding Distributions of Chadic Languages: Archaeological PerspectivesScott MacEachern5. 800 Languages and Counting: Lessons from Survey Research across a Linguistically Diverse ContinentCarolyn LoganPart II: Forces of Fixity and Consolidation6. Conquest and Contact in North African LanguagesMoha Ennaji7. Ajami Literacies of West AfricaFallou Ngom8. Vernacular Language and Political ImaginationDerek R. Peterson9. Language Movement and Civil War in West AfricaEricka A. Albaugh10. How a Lingua Franca SpreadsFiona Mc LaughlinPart III: Influences on Fragmentation, Transformation, and Recombination11. Scales and Units: Language Movement and Change in Central AfricaKathryn M. de Luna12. Localizing the Global: The Wanderwörter of Nineteenth-Century South Central AfricaDavid M. Gordon13. The Invisible Niche of AUYLPhillip W. Rudd14. Language Movement and Pragmatic Change in a Conflict Area: The Border Triangle of Uganda, Rwanda, and DR CongoNico NassensteinPart IV: Traveling Remnants: African Languages and the Diaspora15. The African Diaspora and Language: Movement, Borrowing, and ReturnMaureen Warner-Lewis16. Metaphors to Live By in the Diaspora: Conceptual Tropes and Ontological Wordplay among Central Africans in the Middle Passage and BeyondRobert W. Slenes17. Caribbean French-African Creole and African MetaphysicsHanétha Vété-Congolo18. Population Movements, Language Contact, Linguistic Diversity, Etc.: A PostscriptSalikoko S. Mufwene