Papers on Language and Culture: an African Perspective (ePub)
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The idea came to me when I was asked, during an interview, why I wrote on such different topics as part of my scholarship. The question was based on the different publications in which the person asking had found them. I had to explain that they are all on language and culture, two areas that are closely interrelated.
It occurred to me that having all the papers published in one volume would help show how they relate to one another, and thereby provide a more meaningful dialogue on the general topic. I therefore hope that although each paper stands alone, use of cross-referencing will provide a cumulative effect that is impossible when the papers are read as separate publications.
The last chapter is not a paper in the traditional sense, in that it is just a list of words. However, it adds to the readers understanding of the Kikuyu language. The semantic domains are a people groups way of understanding, categorizing and labeling the world around them. I hope it will be especially important as a source for future scholars who will want to analyze the culture and thought processes of their ancestors.
About the Author
Mary Nyambura Muchiri is an associate professor of English at Taylor University, Indiana, USA. She has a Ph.D. in Linguistics from the University of Lancaster, U.K. Her other books are Communiation Skills: A Self Study Course for Universities and Colleges. Longman, Kenya; Saved Through Fire: A Family Experiences Kenya’s war of Independence, Guardian Books; and His banner Over me is Love:The Dreams of an African Woman, Authorhouse, USA.
She has also contributed chapters in Changing Images edited by Anna P. Obura; Society and the Language Classroom edited by Hawel Coleman; On Writing Research: the Braddock Essays 1975-1998 edited by Lisa Ede; and Writing and Learning in Cross-National Perspective edited by David Foster and David R. Russell.
Her interests include research on College Writing, colonial and post colonial literature, and women’s issues.
- Autor: Mary Nyambura Muchiri
- 2009, 1 Seiten, Englisch
- Verlag: AUTHORHOUSE
- ISBN-10: 1468527355
- ISBN-13: 9781468527353
- Erscheinungsdatum: 19.05.2009
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