Name: Essays on Language, Communication and Literature in Africa
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Essays on Language, Communication and Literature in Africa

Edited By: Joyce T. Mathangwane, Akin Odebunmi

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Unpacking discourses in African law, media, and art, these authoritative essays reveal how language shapes the continent's unique cultural values and complex social realities.

Essays on Language, Communication and Literature in Africa explores language choice questions, together with domain-driven lingua-communicative and literary resources situated within the discourses of law, culture, medicine, visual art, politics, the media, music and literature in Africa. It identifies the distinctive African paraphernalia of these discourses, and foregrounds their real-world and mediated cultural and societal values, and highlights the Western presence through the inclusion of aspects of Shakespearean perspectives which bear universal tidings and speak to the African gender tradition.

The chapters’ attention to verbal and visual artistic communicative mechanisms underlines such engagements as multilingualism policies, socio-political declension, social dynamism and cultural interventions that characterise the African setting. These realities are discussed in impressive detail, authoritative scholastic depth and effective stylistic tones that reflect the authors’ familiarity with the facets of African societies deducible from language, communication and literature.

Akin Odebunmi is Professor of Pragmatics and Discourse Analysis at the Department of English, University of Ibadan, Nigeria. His papers have appeared in Studia Anglica Posnaniensia, Linguistik Online, California Linguistic Note, Marang, Nordic Journal of African Studies, Pragmatics and Society and Iranian Journal of Society, Culture and Language, among others. He is also co-editor (with Arua E. Arua and Sailal Arimi) of Language, Gender and Politics, published by the Centre for Black and African Arts and Civilisation, and his reviews of Mira Ariel’s Defining Pragmatics, and Ulrich Busse and Axel Hubler’s Investigations into the Meta-Communicative Lexicon of English have appeared in Discourse Studies. Between 2010 and 2011, he was an Alexander von Humboldt Georg Forster Experienced Fellow at the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies at the University of Freiburg, Germany.

Joyce T. Mathangwane is Professor of Linguistics in the Department of English at the University of Botswana. She has researched and published widely in the areas of Bantu phonology and morphology, sociolinguistics, comparative linguistics, onomastics, and the social aspects of HIV/AIDS. Her publications have appeared in various journals, such as Journal of African Languages and Linguistics, South African Journal of African Languages, and Nomina Africana, as well as a number of peer-reviewed books. Her publications also include The Discourse of HIV/AIDS in Africa (co-edited with Emevwo Biakolo and Dan Odallo) (2003) and Ikalanga Phonetics and Phonology: A Synchronic and Diachronic Study (1999).

Romanus Aboh, Akin Adetunji, Akinmade T. Akande, Moses Akintunde Akintonde, Samuel Alaba Akinwotu, Chiji Akoma, Moses Alo, Ebuka Igwebuike, Bola Shakirat Ijaiya, Razaq Olatunde Rom Kalilu, Ikenna Kamalu, Adebayo Mosobalaje, Mildred Nkolola Wakumelo, Ifeyinwa Genevieve Okolo, Oladepo Olafiundun, Kazeem Olaniyan, Chuka Fred Ononye, Niyi Osunbade, John Simwinga, Foluke Unuaboriah, Kyallo Wadi Wamitila, Joyce T. Mathangwane