Political grandstanding and the use of proverbs in African political discourse

Orwenjo, Daniel Ochieng

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“…The findings are in agreement with some African studies on language acquisition like the studies by Orwenjo (2009) and Makeni (2007). Makeni (2007), for example, reports that the age of the child affects the acquisition of concordial morphemes among the children acquiring Lukhayo as their L1.…”

Section: Age and Lexical Inventionsupporting

confidence: 93%

“…In a related study conducted by Orwenjo (2009), it was found out that children resort to lexical innovations as a "stop-gap" measure to cope with lexical gaps that are hindrances to smooth communication. The current study adopts the same interpretation for cases of lexical importation among the children.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Age has been considered as an important factor in the whole acquisition process by researchers in child language acquisition. Such researches include that of Cenoz (2009); Paradis (2004); Makeni (2007); Nyamasyo (1985); Pinker (1994) and Orwenjo (2009). Lenneberg (1967) argues that the ability and propensity to acquire linguistic structures is inherently biologically linked to the age of the child.…”

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“…This special issue tackles the emergence of what I would loosely term, the Englishes of politics around the globe. There has been some valuable and interesting work in the area of culturally specific political discourse, including political slogans in China (Lu, 1999), proverbs in African political discourse (Orwenjo, 2009), inclusiveness in political campaigning in Trinidad and Tobago (Esposito, 2017), and delegitimization in the Arab Spring (Bhatia, 2015), to mention a few. However, there is scope for further work in the area of how culture‐specific politics shapes language, and how, in turn, language shapes local politics.…”

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Exploring the Englishes of world politics

Bhatia

2020

World Englishes

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This issue intends to open the gates to unexplored areas of research and analysis in world Englishes from the prism of critical discourse analysis, by exploring how political discourse can take on the unique linguistic properties of the cultural contexts in which it is conceived and, accordingly, sculpt the identities of all those addressed or involved. As such, the issue borrows data from different parts of the world, including Ghana, Turkey, Britain, Singapore, America, India, and the Middle East, to investigate how political parties, political leaders, and socio-political movements are most persuasively narrativized when they play on local sentiment and language features representative of local communities and audiences, despite often common, populist aims. 1 INTRODUCTION Criticality in discourse analysis derives from the belief that discursive events share a co-constitutive relationship with the social, cultural, institutional, and political contexts within which they take place (Fairclough, 1989). That is to say that discourse both shapes and is shaped by society. In this sense, 'each discursive event [has] three dimensions or facets: it is spoken or written language, it is an instance of discourse practice involving the production and interpretation of text, and it is a piece of social practice' (Fairclough, 1993, p. 136). Text and social practice are 'mediated by discourse practice' through which the processes of text production, interpretation, and social practice leave imprints on one another (ibid.). Discourse can be seen as a conceptualization of reality stemming from the unique relationship people have with society (the social context they're operating in) that depends on their unique social positions within that society. Discourse, in this sense, becomes the means through which interactive participants construct self, society, and systems of knowledge (ideologies, cultural models and myths, beliefs), both on part of the sender and receiver. Discourse, therefore, as a process of meaning creation, relies as much on production as on interpretations. Deriving from this theoretical perspective, critical discourse analysis (CDA) is interested in 'real, and often extended, instances of social interaction which take (partially) linguistic form. The critical approach is distinctive in its view of (a) the relationship between language and society, and (b) the relationship between analysis and the practices analysed' (Wodak, 1997, p. 173). Work in CDA operates at the crossroads between 'language and social structure' 544

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“…That denominations for food are often the target of such political thrusts is not accidental since the origin or supposed origin of food is often transparent through the terms used, such as in the cases above, through compounds with a premodifying adjective denoting the country of origin or through borrowing the word used from the language of the country of origin (for food and politics, cf. also Orwenjo 2009 for the use of proverbs, also on food, in political campaigns in Africa).…”

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5. Culinary Linguistics: The Chef’s Special

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Ley³

2015

English and American Studies in German

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CLU-SAL publishes monographs and edited collections, culturally oriented grammars and dictionaries in the cross-and interdisciplinary domain of anthropological linguistics or linguistic anthropology. The series offers a forum for anthropological research based on knowledge of the native languages of the people being studied and that linguistic research and grammatical studies must be based on a deep understanding of the function of speech forms in the speech community under study. His research focuses on spoken English, with a particular attention to narrative as well as verbal humor, and is rooted in the wide field of pragmatics. His monographs include Conversational Joking: Humor in Everyday Talk and the popular Conversational Narrative, which has recently been reprinted in paperback edition.He co-edited a handbook on phraseology and volumes on the Foundations of Pragmatics and on Humor in Interaction, which has also seen a reprint in paperback. After many years as Special Issues Editor, he is now Co-Editor in Chief of the Journal of Pragmatics. He also serves on the Consultation Board of the International Pragmatics Association (IPrA) as well as on the editorial boards of a number of journals from the fields of pragmatics and humor studies (e.g. Text and Talk and Humor).In this millennium only, he has published more than 50 articles in peerreviewed journals and edited volumes reflecting his manifold interests in language in use, its forms and functions, including topics as diverse as conjunctions, interjections, pragmatic markers, tellability, swearing, remembering, listener practices, similes, scripted performances, laughter, conflict, and the construction of identities in talk. Uniting his two passions, language and cooking, he has worked on recipes as early as 1983. His recent addition to the field of culinary linguistics is on "Conversational recipe telling" (2011).The articles in this volume were written and assembled as a token of gratitude and affection for our teacher, mentor and colleague.1. We would like to thank the student helpers of English linguistics, above all Isabel Schul and Daniel Recktenwald, for their help, and also our colleagues at the English department of Saarland University and everybody else for not "spilling the beans." Aperitivo Overview of the volume Maximiliane FrobeniusSaarland UniversityThe present volume contains a collection of original research articles from multiple disciplines, revolving around the common theme of language and food and the manifestation of the two within their cultural framework. This section gives a brief overview of the general structure of the volume and of the individual contributions.Similar to the intricate task of composing a four course meal for invited guests, the assembling of an edited volume demands a sense of "what goes together. " The metaphor of the menu serves as the vehicle for the order of contributions: we start with an introduction to the whole field of research (Antipasti), move on to contributions in the form of original research ar...

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