Sökning: "African linguistics"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 7 uppsatser innehållade orden African linguistics.

  1. 1. This shit gonna get real heavy - A quantitative study on the use of African-American Vernacular English in The Wire and The Princess and the Frog. : This shit gonna get real heavy - En kvantitativ studie om hur afroamerikansk engelska används i The Wire och Prinsessan och grodan.

    L3-uppsats, Karlstads universitet/Institutionen för språk, litteratur och interkultur (from 2013)

    Författare :Viktor Everstam; [2021]
    Nyckelord :African-American Vernacular English; AAVE; English; entertainment; linguistics;

    Sammanfattning : The purpose of this study is to investigate how the spoken variety African-American VernacularEnglish (AAVE) is used in entertainment. This is performed by comparing the spoken language oftwo fictional characters from two different sources of entertainment who are depicted as AAVEspeakers. LÄS MER

  3. 2. Fransktalande länder utanför väst – osynlig majoritet i svenska läromedel i franska

    Uppsats för yrkesexamina på grundnivå, Malmö universitet/Fakulteten för lärande och samhälle (LS)

    Författare :Petter Karlsson Söderstrand; [2019]
    Nyckelord :French; Postcolonialism; Kritisk textanalys; Franska; Läromedelsanalys; postkolonialism; väst; Moderna språk; FLE; Francophonie;

    Sammanfattning : The demographics of the French speaking world is rapidly changing, with a majority of the worlds French speakers now residing in African countries with a colonial history with France and Belgium. While the Swedish curriculum for modern languages only specifies that the education should treat areas where the language is spoken, many of the textbooks remain firmly rooted in a Franco-French perspective. LÄS MER

  4. 3. THE PROSODY OF TENSE MARKING IN TEKE-EBOO. A Bantu B70 language of Congo-Brazzaville

    Master-uppsats, Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för språk och litteraturer

    Författare :Ruth Raharimanantsoa; [2017-06-20]
    Nyckelord :Afrikanska språk; African linguistics; Bantu B70 language cluster; Eboo; Kukuya; tense marking; stem-initial stress accent; tone melodies; grammatical tone; intonation; downstep; boundary L tone;

    Sammanfattning : Teke-Eboo is a Bantu B70 language spoken in Congo-Brazzaville, which displays complex tone melodies combining grammatical tone, subject agreement tone and lexical tone on verbs. This study of tense marking in Eboo identifies the tones which mark the recent past, general past and future tenses, and shows how the underlying high-low (H-L) contrastive tone system adds both downstepped H and mid (M) tones in surface realisations. LÄS MER

  5. 4. Contact induced change in Bena (G63) – A study of ‘swahilization’ in a Tanzanian vernacular language

    Magister-uppsats, Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för språk och litteraturer

    Författare :Rasmus Bernander; [2012-10-12]
    Nyckelord :African languages; Bantu; Bena; Swahili; contact linguistics; contact induced change; unequal bilingualism; swahilization ; vocabulary; loanwords; borrowing;

    Sammanfattning : The aim of this study is to describe how Swahili is influencing the vocabulary of Bena (G63), one of the vernacular languages of Tanzania. The paper is written within the field of contact linguistics and relies on theories on how the linguistic outcome of the dis-empowered language is affected in an intense and unequal language contact situation. LÄS MER

  7. 5. Aspects of phonology in Eboo-Nzikou (Bantu B74)

    Magister-uppsats, Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för språk och litteraturer

    Författare :Ruth Raharimanantsoa; [2012-06-27]
    Nyckelord :African linguistics; Bantu languages; Congo-Brazzaville; Teke; Eboo-Nzikou; Proto-Bantu; phonology; advanced tongue root harmony; consonant loss; vowel assimilation; vowel splits; nasalisation;

    Sammanfattning : This paper describes aspects of the phonology of Eboo-Nzikou which forms part of the Teke language group (Bantu B70) spoken in Congo-Brazzaville. It posits that Eboo and Nzikou are phonologically the same variety of Teke. Proto-Bantu reconstructions, as well as two previous phonological sketches of Eboo are taken as the basis for this study. LÄS MER