African languages in global society
Subtitle: papers read at the Symposium "Text in context: African languages between orality and scripturality" : University of Zurich, October 18-20, 2001 = Les langues africaines à l'heure de la mondialisation : communications présentées au symposium "Textes en contexte : langue et écrit face a l'oralité africaine" = Lugha za Kiafrika kwenye enzi ya utandawazi : Makala zilizotolewa kwenye kongamano "Matini katika muktadha: lugha za Kiafrika kati ya kusemwa na kuandikwa"
By: edited by Thomas Bearth, Jasmina Bonato, Karin Geitlinger, Lorenza Coray-Dapretto, Wilhelm J.G. Möhlig, Thomas Olver
Contributors: Bearth, Thomas, editor
Series: Topics in interdisciplinary African studies -- volume 15; Topics in interdisciplinary African studies -- v. 15.
Publisher: Rudiger Köppe Verlag; Swiss Society of African Studies
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Cologne; Berne
Language: eng
Number of pages: 499
ISBN-13: 9783896452597
Copyright date: 2009
Subjects: African languages; Oral tradition; Congresses; Native language and education; African Folk literature; Oral communication
Other titles: Langues africaines à l'heure de la mondialisation; Lugha za Kiafrika kwenye enzi ya utandawazi
Notes: CD-ROM contains all of the papers from the printed volume plus 24 texts not included in the printed volume.

Includes bibliographical references.

Papers in English, French and Swahili; literary texts in English, French, Portuguese, Swahili and Tura.