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Title:Language and development
Editor:Beck, Rose MarieISNI
Year:2013
Periodical:Frankfurter afrikanistische Blätter (ISSN 0937-3039)
Issue:20
Pages:164
Language:English
City of publisher:Köln
Publisher:Köppe
ISBN:9783896457202
Geographic terms:Africa
Ivory Coast - Côte d'Ivoire
Kenya
Senegal
Subjects:development
communication
language usage
gender relations
Tura
linguistics
Abstract:The papers collected in this issue of 'Frankfurter afrikanistische Blätter' on development communication were produced as part of the research project 'Language, gender and sustainability' (LAGSUS), which was conducted between 2003 and 2007. The papers share the following features: 1) a focus on a bottom-up, participatory perspective; 2) a functional understanding of communication in that instances of development communication aim at improving the economic, social and political situation of people in the 'global South', in this case, Africa; 3) a focus on linguistic processes, following from the recognition that language is an underestimated aspect of development research and practice. Articles: Language and sustainability (Thomas Bearth); Development in Africa: the role of language planning (Vic Webb); Development in the Tura region (Côte d'Ivoire) in a time of crisis: a report on local language based action research (Joseph Baya); 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 (Tura, Côte d'Ivoire) (Lydie Vé Kouadio); 'Communication is the key': promoting gender equality in Senegal (Nadine Sieveking); Communicative crisis management in a village association: the role of turn-taking (Bernadette Boecker); Die Struktur wirtschaftlichen Handelns: Organisationsprinzipien der Gesprächseröffnung und Gesprächsbeendigung in kenianischen Produktionsgesprächen (Clarissa Eck). [ASC Leiden abstract]
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