Essays on language, communication and literature in Africa
By: edited by Akin Odebunmi and Joyce T. Mathangwane
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Newcastle upon Tyne
Language: eng
Number of pages: 532
ISBN-13: 9781443878296
Subjects: Sociolinguistics; Communication; Language and languages; Social aspects; African literature; History and criticism; African literature (English)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note:; title: Section One; title: Language and Communication in African Societies -- -- ch. One; title: Saved by the School Bell: A Reality or a Delusion?  -- Joyce T. Mathangwane -- ch. Two; title: The Standardization and "Officialization" of Cameroonian Creole English: Challenges and Prospects  -- Aloysius Ngefac -- ch. Three; title: Barriers to the Use of Zambian Languages in Education and the Media  -- John Simwinga -- ch. Four; title: Persuasion and Politeness Strategies in Multilingual Nigerian Urban Market Haggling Exchanges  -- Moses Alo -- ch. Five; title: The Semantic Contents of Selected Yoruba Proverbs  -- Samuel Alaba Akinwotu -- ch. Six; title: The Generic Structure of a Public Hearing  -- F.O. Unuabonah -- ch. Seven; title: Communicative Behaviour in Child Welfare Clinics in Southwestern Nigeria  -- Taiwo Abioye -- ch. Eight; title: A Pragmatic Analysis of the English of Nigerian Nursery School Pupils  -- Bola Shakirat Ijaiya -- ch. Nine; title: Visual Language and Stone Carving in Twenty-first Century Yorubaland: The Case of Buremo Olokuta  -- Moses Akintonde -- ch. Ten; title: The Visual Semantics of Adire  -- Margaret Olugbemisola Areo -- ch. Eleven; title: Tenor of Discourse in General Ibrahim Babangida's Independence Day Broadcasts  -- Kazeem Kolawole Olaniyan -- ch. Twelve; title: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Rhetorical Strategies in "Open Letters to President Olusegun Obasanjo" in Selected Nigerian Newspapers  -- Ikenna Kamalu -- ch. Thirteen; title: Different Label, Different Ideology: A Critical Stylistic Interpretation of Political News Reports on the Niger Delta Crisis  -- Chuka-Fred Ononye -- ch. Fourteen; title: On the Politics of the Internationalisation of Nigerian Hip Hop Lyrics -- -- Section Two; title: Literature, Language and Style -- -- ch. Fifteen; title: "Talking" Igbo, "Writing" English: Nigerianisms in The Concubine  -- Romanus Aboh -- ch. Sixteen; title: Translating Manama Ba into Kiswahili: A Post-colonial and Intertextual Reading  -- James Omboga Zaja -- ch. Seventeen; title: The Play and Interplay of Intertextuality: Examining the Poetics of Influence in Kiswahili Literature  -- Kyallo Wadi Wamitila -- ch. Eighteen; title: Indigenous Beliefs and Modernity: Ngugi wa Thiong'o's Wizard of the Crow  -- Ifeyinwa Genevieve Okolo -- ch. Nineteen; title: In Their Father's House: Soyinka, Appiah and the Politics of Africa's Philosophy of Culture  -- James Tar Tsaaior -- ch. Twenty; title: Oil Politics, State and the Praxis of Agency in Nigerian Political Drama and Theatre  -- Adebayo Mosobalaje -- ch. Twenty-One; title: Referentiality in Femi Osofisan's Midnight Hotel  -- Adeniyi Osunbade -- ch. Twenty-Two; title: Indexicality and Characterization in Wole Soyinka's Ake  -- K.K. Olaniyan -- ch. Twenty-Three; title: Marginalization of Women in Selected Plays of Shakespeare  -- Lami C. Adama -- ch. Twenty-Four; title: O bu Igbo, English, ka O bu Engiligbo? Language Choice and Igbo Narrative Authenticity -- Chiji Akoma.