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African Languages in the 21st Century: Contexts, Developments, and Perspectives
发布日期：2023-11-14 13:35:20  发布者：外国语学院

时间：2023年11月28日18:30

地点：仓前校区恕园19-205

主讲内容：

Africa is one of the world’s most linguistically diverse areas. More than 2,000 languages are spoken on the continent, often in complex, multilingual ecologies. In addition to historical African languages, trade, cultural contact and the colonial experience have introduced languages like Arabic and English, different European and South Asian languages, and more recently Mandarin, into the picture. African languages include world languages like Swahili, major national languages like isiZulu or Hausa, and a range of different community languages, many of which are endangered. The African language situation has always been highly dynamic and the first quarter of the 21st century has seen a number of developments in the linguistic ecologies of Africa – such as the continued rise of Swahili, language activism and the revalorization of community languages, increased recognition of multilingualism and translanguaging, and the spread of urban youth languages such as Sheng. In this talk I will review the contemporary linguistic dynamics in Africa and relate it to wider global linguistic and historical developments since the beginning of the millennium.

主讲人简介：

Lutz Marten is Professor of General and African Linguistics at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London. He is the Founding Chair of the International Conference on Bantu Linguistics and since 2020 he has been the editor of the Transactions of the Philological Society. He is interested in how language is structured and used, how languages differ and change over time, and how language is linked to culture, society, history, nature and other domains of human life. Most of his work is related to African languages and he has worked with collaborators and communities across the continent for many years. His publications include At the Syntax-Pragmatics Interface (OUP 2002), A Grammatical Sketch of Herero (with Wilhelm Möhlig and Jekura Kavari, Köppe 2002), The Dynamics of Language (with Ronnie Cann and Ruth Kempson, Elsevier 2005), and Colloquial Swahili (with Donovan McGrath, Routledge 2003/2012).


学术预告

African Languages in the 21st Century: Contexts, Developments, and Perspectives

外国语学院 · 2023-11-14

时间：2023年11月28日18:30

地点：仓前校区恕园19-205

主讲内容：

Africa is one of the world’s most linguistically diverse areas. More than 2,000 languages are spoken on the continent, often in complex, multilingual ecologies. In addition to historical African languages, trade, cultural contact and the colonial experience have introduced languages like Arabic and English, different European and South Asian languages, and more recently Mandarin, into the picture. African languages include world languages like Swahili, major national languages like isiZulu or Hausa, and a range of different community languages, many of which are endangered. The African language situation has always been highly dynamic and the first quarter of the 21st century has seen a number of developments in the linguistic ecologies of Africa – such as the continued rise of Swahili, language activism and the revalorization of community languages, increased recognition of multilingualism and translanguaging, and the spread of urban youth languages such as Sheng. In this talk I will review the contemporary linguistic dynamics in Africa and relate it to wider global linguistic and historical developments since the beginning of the millennium.

主讲人简介：

Lutz Marten is Professor of General and African Linguistics at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London. He is the Founding Chair of the International Conference on Bantu Linguistics and since 2020 he has been the editor of the Transactions of the Philological Society. He is interested in how language is structured and used, how languages differ and change over time, and how language is linked to culture, society, history, nature and other domains of human life. Most of his work is related to African languages and he has worked with collaborators and communities across the continent for many years. His publications include At the Syntax-Pragmatics Interface (OUP 2002), A Grammatical Sketch of Herero (with Wilhelm Möhlig and Jekura Kavari, Köppe 2002), The Dynamics of Language (with Ronnie Cann and Ruth Kempson, Elsevier 2005), and Colloquial Swahili (with Donovan McGrath, Routledge 2003/2012).