In:Anthropological Linguistics: Perspectives from Africa
Edited by Andrea Hollington, Alice Mitchell and Nico Nassenstein
[Culture and Language Use 23] 2024
► pp. v–vi
Get fulltext
Available under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives (CC BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.
For any use beyond this license, please contact the publisher at rights@benjamins.nl.
Published online: 1 February 2024
https://doi.org/10.1075/clu.23.toc
https://doi.org/10.1075/clu.23.toc
Table of contents
List of figuresVII
List of tablesIX
List of mapsXI
AcknowledgmentsXIII
Chapter 1.Introduction1
Nico Nassenstein
Alice Mitchell
Andrea Hollington
Part 1.Time, space, and language
Chapter 2.The cultural, linguistic and cognitive relativity
of time concepts30
of time concepts30
Thomas Widlok
Chapter 3.A cautious approach to spatial orientation in Tima49
Suzan Alamin
Gertrud Schneider-Blum
Chapter 4.Mouths, tongues, and ears: Source concepts for ‘language’ across Africa83
Alice Mitchell
Nicola Zimmermann
Chapter 5.Notes on glottonyms and ethnonyms in Ethiopian languages104
Zelealem Leyew
Part 2.Personhood, sociality, and naming
Chapter 6.Conceptions of the make-up of a human person in Ewe136
Felix K. Ameka
Chapter 7.Utu as epistemology and conviviality in Kiswahili
culture: Anthropological linguistic perspectives on living together177
Agnes Brühwiler
Andrea Hollington
Chapter 8.“They look hostile from afar”: Language ideologies and representations of “Northernness” in
Uganda202
Jan Knipping
Chapter 9.Kin-relational expressions of the Tima
(Nuba Mountains, Sudan)223
(Nuba Mountains, Sudan)223
Nataliya Veit
Gertrud Schneider-Blum
Chapter 10.Tagoi birth names: A historical change from African to Islamic/Arabic names253
Abeer M. A. Bashir
Osman M. O. Ali
Part 3.Perception and classification
Chapter 11.Catching and classifying fish among the Dwang278
James Essegbey
Chapter 12.Perception and expression of color among the
Wolof of Senegal306
Wolof of Senegal306
Adjaratou Oumar Sall
Chapter 13.“Show your feelings!”: On the expression of emotions in Rabai (Midzichenda)331
Laura Seel
Nico Nassenstein
Chapter 14.Verbal lexicalization and cultural domains in Toposa367
Helga Schröder
Part 4.Sociocultural dimensions of discourse structure
Chapter 15.Tail-head linkage in Upper Guinea Coast languages: The areal diffusion of pragmatic-syntactic structures (Baïnounk, Joola and Creoles)394
Alexander Cobbinah
Chapter 16.On politeness and taboo among the Zande425
Helma Pasch
Faustin Dusa Gumekpala
Chapter 17.The narrative of a witness: A conversation-analytic approach to Swahili453
Maren Rüsch
Index
