Many disciplines study language movement and change in Africa, but they rarely interact. Here, eighteen scholars from a range of disciplines explore differing conceptions of language movement in Africa through empirical case studies.
Many disciplines study language movement and change in Africa, but they rarely interact. Here, eighteen scholars from a range of disciplines explore differing conceptions of language movement in Africa through empirical case studies.
Ericka A. Albaugh teaches and researches on the politics of language, ethnic conflict, and political development in Africa. She has conducted field research in Cameroon, Senegal, Ghana, Cote d'Ivoire, and Burkina Faso, and has written articles on language politics, education, and elections on the continent. Her recent book is entitled State-Building and Multilingual Education in Africa (Cambridge University Press, 2014), and she is currently researching the spread of lingua francas within and across state boundaries. Kathryn M. de Luna is an historian of Central Africa and publishes in the fields of history, linguistics, and archaeology. Her first book, Collecting Food, Cultivating People: Subsistence and Society in Central Africa (Yale University Press, 2016) won the Wallace Award. She is currently researching the politics of early central African pyrotechnologies and bodily senses and is beginning a project on human mobility and future and past climates in central Zambia.
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* 1. Toward an Interdisciplinary Perspective on Language Movement and Change * Ericka A. Albaugh and Kathryn M. de Luna * Part I: Describing and Classifying Language Movement and Change * 2. Language Change and Movement as Seen by Historical Linguistics * Derek Nurse * 3. The Ethnologue and L2 Mapping * Kenneth S. Olson and M. Paul Lewis * 4. Understanding Distributions of Chadic Languages: Archaeological Perspectives * Scott MacEachern * 5. 800 Languages and Counting: Lessons from Survey Research across a Linguistically Diverse Continent * Carolyn Logan * Part II: Forces of Fixity and Consolidation * 6. Conquest and Contact in North African Languages * Moha Ennaji * 7. Ajami Literacies of West Africa * Fallou Ngom * 8. Vernacular Language and Political Imagination * Derek R. Peterson * 9. Language Movement and Civil War in West Africa * Ericka A. Albaugh * 10. How a Lingua Franca Spreads * Fiona Mc Laughlin * Part III: Influences on Fragmentation, Transformation, and Recombination * 11. Scales and Units: Language Movement and Change in Central Africa * Kathryn M. de Luna * 12. Localizing the Global: The Wanderwörter of Nineteenth-Century South Central Africa * David M. Gordon * 13. The Invisible Niche of AUYL * Phillip W. Rudd * 14. Language Movement and Pragmatic Change in a Conflict Area: The Border Triangle of Uganda, Rwanda, and DR Congo * Nico Nassenstein * Part IV: Traveling Remnants: African Languages and the Diaspora * 15. The African Diaspora and Language: Movement, Borrowing, and Return * Maureen Warner-Lewis * 16. Metaphors to Live By in the Diaspora: Conceptual Tropes and Ontological Wordplay among Central Africans in the Middle Passage and Beyond * Robert W. Slenes * 17. Caribbean French-African Creole and African Metaphysics * Hanétha Vété-Congolo * 18. Population Movements, Language Contact, Linguistic Diversity, Etc.: A Postscript * Salikoko S. Mufwene
* 1. Toward an Interdisciplinary Perspective on Language Movement and Change * Ericka A. Albaugh and Kathryn M. de Luna * Part I: Describing and Classifying Language Movement and Change * 2. Language Change and Movement as Seen by Historical Linguistics * Derek Nurse * 3. The Ethnologue and L2 Mapping * Kenneth S. Olson and M. Paul Lewis * 4. Understanding Distributions of Chadic Languages: Archaeological Perspectives * Scott MacEachern * 5. 800 Languages and Counting: Lessons from Survey Research across a Linguistically Diverse Continent * Carolyn Logan * Part II: Forces of Fixity and Consolidation * 6. Conquest and Contact in North African Languages * Moha Ennaji * 7. Ajami Literacies of West Africa * Fallou Ngom * 8. Vernacular Language and Political Imagination * Derek R. Peterson * 9. Language Movement and Civil War in West Africa * Ericka A. Albaugh * 10. How a Lingua Franca Spreads * Fiona Mc Laughlin * Part III: Influences on Fragmentation, Transformation, and Recombination * 11. Scales and Units: Language Movement and Change in Central Africa * Kathryn M. de Luna * 12. Localizing the Global: The Wanderwörter of Nineteenth-Century South Central Africa * David M. Gordon * 13. The Invisible Niche of AUYL * Phillip W. Rudd * 14. Language Movement and Pragmatic Change in a Conflict Area: The Border Triangle of Uganda, Rwanda, and DR Congo * Nico Nassenstein * Part IV: Traveling Remnants: African Languages and the Diaspora * 15. The African Diaspora and Language: Movement, Borrowing, and Return * Maureen Warner-Lewis * 16. Metaphors to Live By in the Diaspora: Conceptual Tropes and Ontological Wordplay among Central Africans in the Middle Passage and Beyond * Robert W. Slenes * 17. Caribbean French-African Creole and African Metaphysics * Hanétha Vété-Congolo * 18. Population Movements, Language Contact, Linguistic Diversity, Etc.: A Postscript * Salikoko S. Mufwene
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