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Historical Linguistics and the Comparative Study of African Languages

By: Gerrit J. Dimmendaal

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Historical Linguistics and the Comparative Study of African Languages

By: Gerrit J. Dimmendaal

This advanced historical linguistics course book deals with the historical and comparative study of African languages. The first part functions as an elementary introduction to the comparative method, involving the establishment of lexical and grammatical cognates, the reconstruction of their historical development, techniques for the subclassification of related languages, and the use of language-internal evidence, more specifically the application of internal reconstruction. Part II addresses language contact phenomena and the status of language in a wider, cultural-historical and ecological context. Part III deals with the relationship between comparative linguistics and other disciplines. In this rich course book, the author presents valuable views on a number of issues in the comparative study of African languages, more specifically concerning genetic diversity on the African continent, the status of pidginised and creolised languages, language mixing, and grammaticalisation.

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9027287228

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Nurturing Language

Anthropological Linguistics in an African Context

By: Gerrit J. Dimmendaal

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Nurturing Language

Anthropological Linguistics in an African Context

By: Gerrit J. Dimmendaal

This monograph introduces students and scholars in linguistics, anthropology, and intercultural communication to anthropological linguistics, with a special focus on Africa. Among the topics addressed are semantic fields such as kinship or colour terminology, spatial orientation, linguistic relativity and the link between language and cognition, onomastics, the ethnography of communication, interactional sociolinguistics, emotions, (im)politeness strategies, conversation analysis, and non-verbal communication.

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Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

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3110727145

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Historical Linguistics and the Comparative Study of African Languages

By: Gerrit Jan Dimmendaal

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By: Gerrit Jan Dimmendaal

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The Leopard's Spots

Essays on Language, Cognition and Culture

By: Gerrit Dimmendaal

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The Leopard's Spots

Essays on Language, Cognition and Culture

By: Gerrit Dimmendaal

In The Leopard’s Spots, Gerrit J. Dimmendaal discusses the interaction between language, cognition, and culture in an African context with special focus on the cultural construction of meaning through language. Such constructions are constrained by our cognitive system, but leave lots of space for culture-specific interpretations and thereby for tremendous typological diversity between languages. This variation reflects the adaptive nature of human language in the same way that the spots of the leopard reflect selective advantages for its natural habitat. But whereas science has essentially one explanation for the rosettes of the leopard, the non-scientific mind may attach meaning to his or her cultural environment by way of language through a plethora of strategies.

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The Leopard's Spots

Essays on Language, Cognition and Culture

By: Gerrit Dimmendaal

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Essays on Language, Cognition and Culture

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In this volume, Gerrit J. Dimmendaal discusses the interaction between language, cognition, and culture in an African context with special focus on the cultural construction of meaning through language.

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Nurturing Language

Anthropological Linguistics in an African Context

By: Gerrit J. Dimmendaal

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Anthropological Linguistics in an African Context

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The Leopard's Spots

Essays on Language, Cognition and Culture

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Historical Linguistics and the Comparative Study of African Languages

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Nurturing Language

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Historical Linguistics and the Comparative Study of African Languages

Historical Linguistics and the Comparative Study of African Languages

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Nurturing Language

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