Morphology-Pragmatics Interface The Case of the Tanzanian Commercials in Swahili Newspapers

This work articulates the relationship between the choice of the vocabularies, their morphophonological modifications and the anticipated meanings in the language of commercial advertisements in Tanzanian Swahili newspapers. An eclectic approach that makes use of the Textual Analysis Approach and Lexical Morphology Theory brings into light important facts. For instance, apart from the use of standard Swahili, there is a good deal of English loan words which either undergo Swahilization morphologically or keep the original forms. Also, the intended meanings are captured by the intended audiences by, among others, the age and level of education of the newspapers’ readers. The contribution herein is that there is a link between the designed morphology of the words and the interpretation captured, at least in the language of commercials.

Swahili-Sprachführer

von Walter von St. Paul-Illaire

The golden ship and other tales : translated from the Swahili

[Gertrude Ward]. With illustrations by Lilian Bell & Alice B. Woodward

Swahili exercises. Compiled for the Universities' mission to Central Africa,

Mode of access: Internet.

A handbook of the Swahili language, as spoken at Zanzibar /

Mode of access: Internet.

Comparative handbook of Congo languages; being a comparative grammar of the eight principal languages spoken along the banks of the Congo river from the west coast of Africa to Stanley Falls, a distance of 1300 miles, and of Swahili, the "lingua franca" of the country stretching thence to the east coast, with a comparative vocabulary giving 800 selected words from these languages, with their English equivalents, followed by appendices on six other dialects;

Mode of access: Internet.

Afrosistemas y mentalidad infantil : el Sistema Educativo en África.

Objetivo extrínseco: buscar factores que determinaron la acción educativa sobre la infancia africana y orientaron su mentalidad de acuerdo con los fines sociales y culturales de cada sistema étnico. Objetivo intrínseco: correlacionar la acción dinámica de los distintos sistemas propios y ajenos a los pueblos africanos que han dado origen a la peculiaridad o unanimidad entre ellos. El pueblo Masai: tribu de los Samburu. Otros pueblos africanos: Swahili (Isla de Lamu en Kenia), los kikuyo, los zulúes sudafricanos. Investigación antropológica que relaciona las características de la sociedad tradicional mediante un trabajo de campo del pueblo Masai: interpretación de los datos y del material antropológico recogido; estudio de la trayectoria educacional en los pueblos más representativos del África negra a partir de la influencia de factores como el Islamismo, la colonización y las misiones europeas; finalmente, el autor expone una crítica imparcial de lo realizado en los países africanos a partir de su independencia. Observación directa de distintos pueblos africanos. Bibliografía especializada. Evaluación de la información y análisis de contenidos. A partir de esta tesis el lector preocupado por la educación y los problemas africanos debería inducir sus consecuencias de acuerdo con su propia ideología, aspecto peligroso de realizar dada la complejidad del tema y distanciamiento cultural.

Los ??rabes en el ??ndico

Programa emitido el 13 de enero de 1995

Language ideologies and Schooled Education in Rural Tanzania : The Case of Karagwe

In this article I argue that language policies for education have effects on pupils’ educational possibilities. With the case of Karagwe district in Tanzania I have found that the case of “Swahili only” in primary school education favours the small minority of the children that live in a context where Swahili is used. This leads to inequality in pupils’ chances in education and to a low level of achievement of academic content in schools. This also promote the developing and use of safety strategies among teachers and pupils that hide failure and prevent pupils’ learning.

Der swahilisprachige Videofilm Girlfriend /// Arbeitspapiere / Institut für Ethnologie und Afrikastudien ; 63

Tansania, Dar es Salaam, Swahili, Videofilme, Populärkultur, Bongo Flava, Hip Hop, Filmanalyse, Sprachanalyse, Swahili Slang, Kiswahili cha Mitaani, Codeswitching