Language and Development

Edited by: Rose Marie Beck. With an introduction by: Rose Marie Beck. With contributions by: Joseph Baya, Thomas Bearth, Bernadette Böcker, Clarissa Eck, Nadine Sieveking, Lydie Vé Kouadio, Vic Webb.

Series: FAB Frankfurt African Studies Bulletin Year 2008, Volume 20

2013
164 pp.
3 colour photographs, 2 colour illustrations, numerous tables and charts
Text language(s): English, German
Format: 160 x 240 mm
340 g
Paperback
€ 39.80

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CONTENTS

Rose Marie Beck: Introduction

Thomas Bearth: Language and sustainability

Vic Webb: Development in Africa – The role of language planning

Joseph Baya: Development in the Tura region in a time of crisis – A report on local language based action research

Lydie Vé Kouadio: The anger of women versus the silence of men – An analysis of the discourse of the women of W. concerning the management of their huller

Nadine Sieveking: "Communication is the key" – Promoting gender equality in Senegal

Bernadette Böcker: Communicative crisis management in a village association – The role of turn-taking

Clarissa Eck: Die Struktur wirtschaftlichen Handelns – Organisationsprinzipien der Gesprächs­eröffnung und Gesprächsbeendigung in kenianischen Produktionsgesprächen

Under these links you will find publications by the contributors and further studies of linguistic pragmatics and discourse analyses:

Accompanying material:

• African Media Cultures – Cultures de médias en Afrique (ISBN 978-3-89645-246-7)
• Bridging the Language Gap (ISBN 978-3-89645-890-2)
• Conversational Strategies in Akan (ISBN 978-3-89645-262-7)
• Gesprächsstrategien im Swahili (ISBN 978-3-927620-41-4)
• Speech Acts and Speech Events in African Languages (ISBN 978-3-89645-893-3)
• Texte auf Textilien in Ostafrika (ISBN 978-3-89645-266-5)
• Topics in West African Discourse-Pragmatics (ISBN 978-3-89645-856-8)

Cross-reference:

• African Languages in Global Society / Les langues africaines à l’heure de la mondialisation / Lugha za Kiafrika kwenye enzi ya utandawazi (ISBN 978-3-89645-259-7)
• African Sociolinguistic and Sociocultural Studies (ISBN 978-3-89645-721-9)
• Perspektiven afrikanistischer Forschung / Perspectives de recherches africanistes (ISBN 978-3-927620-82-7)
• Research Mate in African Linguistics – Focus on Cameroon (ISBN 978-3-89645-041-8)

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