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Southern African Linguistics and Applied Language Studies
Item type: JournalsArticles on a wide range of linguistic topics and acts as a forum for research into ALL the languages of southern Africa, including English and Afrikaans. -
Africa-Wide Information
Item type: DatabasesAfrica-Wide provides comprehensive, multidisciplinary information which documents research and publications by Africans and about Africa. Africa-Wide covers close to 4 million news articles, scholarly publications articles, books, reports, theses, citations, and grey literature. Records include article abstracts and some full text with keyword indexing to enhance relevant retrieval. The coverage is comprehensive from the 18th century to current and dates back to the 16th century. Africa-Wide Information is an essential resource for those with an interest in African research and publications and for those doing research in an African context, no matter the subject field. -
Causatives in Kwa: An intragenetic typology
Item type: Books • Author: Reginald Akuoko DuahIn Causatives in Kwa: An Intragenetic Typology Reginald Akuoko Duah presents a rich description and analysis of the formal types of causative expressions found in the different Kwa languages. Using a variety of language-internal tests, the book brings to light the features which make these languages similar in certain respects and different others. The book represents a fresh approach to the study of serial verb constructions (SVCs) and demonstrates that cause-effect serial verb constructions are a type of causative constructions and that analytic causatives lie outside realm of serial verb constructions. -
South Africa’s Education Crisis: Views from the Eastern Cape
Item type: Books • Author: Edited by Laurence WrightSouth Africa's Education Crisis casts light on the context and causes of the education crisis in the Eastern Cape, as well as drawing together original research, commentary and analysis in language education topics by teacher educators from Rhodes University's Institute for the Study of English in Africa and colleagues elsewhere, all of whom have been involved in the in-service education and development of teachers for many years. Although the focus is on the Eastern Cape, many of the issues considered are common to education in rural areas throughout southern Africa and this book will prove useful to educational researchers, education managers, teachers and teacher educators elsewhere in South Africa and beyond. -
Nomina Africana: The Journal of African Onomastics
Item type: JournalsNomina Africana is the journal of the Names Society of Southern Africa and publishes original peer reviewed research that makes a contribution to the field of onomastics on the continent. -
Language and the Construction of Multiple Identities in the Nigerian Novel
Item type: Books • Author: Romanus AbohLanguage and the construction of multiple identities in the Nigerian novel examines the multifaceted relation between people and the various identities they construct for themselves and for others through the context-specific ways they use language. Specifically, this book pays attention to how forms of identities – ethnic, cultural, national and gender – are constructed through the use of language in select novels of Adichie, Atta and Betiang. Employing an interdisciplinary approach, this book draws analytical insights from critical discourse analysis, literary discourse analysis and socio-ethno-linguistic analysis. -
Men across time: Contesting masculinities in Ghanaian fiction and film
Item type: Books • Author: Theresah Patrine EnninMen across time: Contesting masculinities in Ghanaian fiction and film examines the various constructions and manifestations of masculinities from precolonial, colonial, independent and post-independent Ghana as portrayed in selected Ghanaian fiction, film and music videos. This book submits that in questioning the various masculine modes of behaviours portrayed in these texts, and negotiating their own masculine identities, the male characters showcase the mutations that are taking place within masculine representations over time and aver that other models of masculine expression are possible. -
Queer Bodies in African Films
Item type: Books • Author: Gibson NcubeIn examining diverse films in various languages and from different parts of the African continent, Queer Bodies in Africa Films shows that queer African experiences and cultural productions have developed beyond the hegemony of South Africa. Furthermore. its nuanced reading of films from different geographic zones and time frames contends that a focus on the body allows for a unique understanding of what queerness is and means within the context of Africa.
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