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Gender and Language in Sub-Saharan Africa: Tradition, struggle and change

By L. L. Atanga , S. E. Ellece , L. Litosseliti , J. Sunderland (eds.)

Book information

Publisher
John Benjamins Publishing Company
Year
2013
ISBN
9027218749, 9789027218742
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
5 MB (4817645 bytes)
Series
IMPACT: Studies in Language and Society
Pages
343\344
Scanned
yes
Time added
2015-11-22 01:27:06
Языки и языкознание;Лингвистика;Гендерная лингвист

Description

Gender and Language in Sub-Saharan Africa: Tradition, Struggle and Change is the first book to bring together the topics of language and gender, African languages, and gender in African contexts, and it does so in a descriptive, explanatory and critical way. Including fascinating new work and new, often challenging data from Botswana, Chad, Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria and South Africa, this collection looks at some ‘traditional’ uses of language in relation to the gender of its speakers and the gendered nature of the languages themselves; it also identifies and explores social change in terms of both gender and sexuality, as reflected in and constructed by language and discourse. The contributions to this volume are accessibly written and will be of interest to students and established academics working on African sociolinguistics and discourse, as well as those whose interest is language, gender and sexuality.

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