Andrea Hollington

List of John Benjamins publications in which Andrea Hollington is involved.

Titles

Anthropological Linguistics: Perspectives from Africa

Edited by Andrea Hollington, Alice Mitchell and Nico Nassenstein

This collection presents new research on key topics in anthropological linguistics, with a focus on African languages. While Africanist linguists have long been concerned with sociocultural aspects of language structure and use, no comprehensive volume dedicated to the anthropological linguistics… read more

[Culture and Language Use, 23] 2024. xiii, 485 pp. | open access

Creativity in Language

Edited by Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald, Andrea Hollington, Nico Nassenstein and Anne Storch

Special issue of International Journal of Language and Culture 6:1 (2019) vi, 223 pp.

Traveling Conceptualizations: A cognitive and anthropological linguistic study of Jamaican

Andrea Hollington

Traveling Conceptualizations is a monograph which is concerned with African cultural conceptualizations in Jamaican. It contributes to the study of Transatlantic relations between Africa and Jamaica, and in particular to the understanding of African influences in Jamaican linguistic practices. The… read more

[Culture and Language Use, 14] 2015. xxiv, 242 pp.

Hollington, Andrea 2026 Review of Gerfer (2025): Jamaican Creole in global reggae and dancehall performances: Language use, perceptions, attitudes Journal of Language and Pop Culture 2:1, pp. 114–120 | Review

Brühwiler, Agnes and Andrea Hollington 2024 Chapter 7. Utu as epistemology and conviviality in Kiswahili culture: Anthropological linguistic perspectives on living together Anthropological Linguistics: Perspectives from Africa, Hollington, Andrea, Alice Mitchell and Nico Nassenstein (eds.), pp. 177–201 | Chapter

Anthropological linguistics is essentially concerned with language in/as cultural practices as they emerge and change through humans living in communities. Yet the aspect of living together itself has rarely been explicitly addressed from anthropological linguistic perspectives. In our… read more

Nassenstein, Nico, Alice Mitchell and Andrea Hollington 2024 Chapter 1. Introduction Anthropological Linguistics: Perspectives from Africa, Hollington, Andrea, Alice Mitchell and Nico Nassenstein (eds.), pp. 1–28 | Chapter

The study of African languages, cultural practices and speakers’ conceptualizations is complex and multilayered. This introductory chapter provides an overview of the goals and scope of the volume. It also offers a short historical survey of anthropological linguistics as well as some… read more

Hollington, Andrea 2019  Chibende : Linguistic creativity and play in Zimbabwe Creativity in Language, Aikhenvald, Alexandra Y., Andrea Hollington, Nico Nassenstein and Anne Storch (eds.), pp. 29–44 | Article

Play language practices are common around the globe and have been described for several parts of the world. While some contributions on play language focus on the structure, manipulative strategies, and rules, this paper ties in with approaches that seek to view play language practices in their… read more

Hollington, Andrea and Nico Nassenstein 2019 More thoughts on creative and secret language practices Creativity in Language, Aikhenvald, Alexandra Y., Andrea Hollington, Nico Nassenstein and Anne Storch (eds.), pp. 217–223 | Afterword

Hollington, Andrea 2017 Chapter 5. Emotions in Jamaican: African conceptualizations, emblematicity and multimodality in discourse and public spaces Consensus and Dissent: Negotiating Emotion in the Public Space, Storch, Anne (ed.), pp. 81–104 | Chapter

This contribution deals with expressions and conceptualizations of emotions in Jamaican. By drawing on various examples and their performances in public and digital spaces, this paper argues that what we conceive as ‘emotion’ is indeed a complex and often culturally defined phenomenon which… read more