Identity meets nationality : voices from the humanities /

Questions about how social conditioning and historical circumstances influence assumptions about who we are and how others perceive who we are have attracted wide ranging discussion across the disciplines in the arts, humanities and allied sciences. Simultaneously, since the Independence period, sch...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Lauer, Helen, Amfo, Nana Aba Appiah, Anderson, Jemima Asabea
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ghana : Sub-Saharan Publishers, 2011.
Temas:
National characteristics.
Humanities.
Caractéristiques nationales.
Humanities
National characteristics
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Contents
  • Foreword
  • Introduction
  • Notes on the Contributors
  • 1. The Humanities and the Ideaof National Identity
  • Introduction
  • Religion and identity
  • Politics and identity
  • References
  • 2. Empiricalism: The Empirical Character of an African Philosophy
  • 1. Akan language and the expression of abstract ideas
  • 2. The empirical and the metaphysical
  • 3. Empirical concepts of time and space
  • 4. Empiricalism
  • References
  • 3. Metaphors of Death in Akan
  • Introduction
  • 1. The conceptual metaphor theory (CMT)2. Language, data, and method
  • 3.1 Analysis and discussion of Akansâ€? view of death
  • 3.2 Death is departure
  • 3.3 Death is a loss
  • 3.4 Death is a person
  • 3.5 Death is sleep
  • Summary and conclusion
  • References
  • 4. Political Nicknaming in Ghana: Social Representations of Democracy Achieved through Conceptual Blending
  • Introduction and background
  • 1. Political discourse and social cognition
  • 2. Language in meaning construction
  • 2.1. Meaning creation in cognitive semantics
  • 2.1.1. Metaphor in meaning construction3. Conceptual blending theoryâ€?an overview
  • 3.1. The nature of blending
  • 3.2. The blending analysis
  • 3.2.1. Ellembele Mugabe
  • 3.2.2. Lawra Nandom Kabila
  • 3.2.3. World Bank
  • 3.2.4. Rural Bank
  • Conclusion: conceptual blending in social cognition
  • References
  • Internet references
  • 5. “Do not Rob us of Ourselvesâ€?Language and Nationalism in Colonial Ghana
  • Introduction
  • 1. Initial Gold Coast reaction to European entry into Africa
  • 2. Language and nationalism in the Gold Coast
  • 2.1. Early strong advocates of the use of Ghanaian languages2.1.1. Reverend Jacob Benjamin Anaman
  • 2.1.2. Reverend Gaddiel Robert Acquaah
  • 2.1.3. William Esuman Gwira Kobina Sekyi
  • 3. Language in education
  • Conclusion
  • References
  • 6. Language Use in Education in Minority Language Areas
  • Introduction
  • 1. Language use in education in Ghanaâ€?an overview
  • 2. The case of Logba
  • 3. Respondents
  • 4. Method
  • 5. Discussion of results
  • References
  • 7. The Dilemma of African-American EnglishIdentity
  • Introduction
  • 1. Syntactic similarities1.1 Resumptive-with construction in Ghanaian languages
  • 1.2 Properties of the resumptive-with construction in Akan
  • 1.3 The antecedent of the pronoun in the resumptive-with construction
  • 1.4 Genitive marking
  • 1.5 Multiple Negation
  • 2. Phonological similarities
  • 2.1 Consonant cluster reduction
  • 2.2 The phonological account/voicing generalisation
  • 2.3 The African origin view
  • 2.4 Similarities shared by Ghanaian English and African-American English
  • 2.4.1 Sociolinguistic influence
  • 2.4.1 Deletion of liquids

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