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Manual of Romance Languages in Africa
With more than two thousand languages spread over its territory, multilingualism is a common reality in Africa. The main official languages of most African countries are Indo-European, in many instances Romance. As they were primarily brought to Africa in the era of colonization, the areas discussed in this volume are thirty-five states that were once ruled by Belgium, France, Italy, Portugal, or Spain, and the African regions still belonging to three of them. Twenty-six states are presented in relation to French, four to Italian, six to Portuguese, and two to Spanish. They are considered in separate chapters according to their sociolinguistic situation, linguistic history, external language policy, linguistic characteristics, and internal language policy. The result is a comprehensive overview of the Romance languages in modern-day Africa. It follows a coherent structure, offers linguistic and sociolinguistic information, and illustrates language contact situations, power relations, as well as the cross-fertilization and mutual enrichment emerging from the interplay of languages and cultures in Africa.
Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention -- MICCAI 2010
The three-volume set LNCS 6361, 6362 and 6363 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention, MICCAI 2010, held in Beijing, China, in September 2010. Based on rigorous peer reviews, the program committee carefully selected 251 revised papers from 786 submissions for presentation in three volumes. The second volume includes 84 papers organized in topical sections on ultrasound imaging, neuroimage analysis, simulation of anatomical structures, endoscopic and microscopic imaging, and image registration.
Structural and Sociolinguistic Perspectives on Indigenisation
Descriptions of new varieties of European languages in postcolonial contexts have focused exceedingly on system-based indigenisation and variation. This volume–while further illustrating processes and instantiations of indigenisation at this level–incorporates investigations of sociolinguistic and pragmatic phenomena in daily social interaction–e.g. politeness, respect, compliment response, naming and address forms, and gender–through innovative analytic frameworks that view indigenisation from emic perspectives. Focusing on postcolonial Cameroon and using natural and questionnaire data, the book assesses the salience of linguistic and sociocultural hybridisation triggered by colonialism and, recently, globalisation in interaction in and across languages and cultures. The authors illustrate how the multilingual nature of the society and individuals’ multilingual repertoires shape patterns in the indigenisation and evolution of the ex-colonial languages, English and French, and Pidgin English.
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Advances in Neural Networks - ISNN 2007
This book is part of a three volume set that constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th International Symposium on Neural Networks, ISNN 2007, held in Nanjing, China in June 2007. Coverage includes neural networks for control applications, robotics, data mining and feature extraction, chaos and synchronization, support vector machines, fault diagnosis/detection, image/video processing, and applications of neural networks.
The History and Compilation of Zhang Zhongjing’s Wu Zang Lun
People who have studied acupuncture and Chinese medicine recognize Zhang Zhongjing as the author of two seminal texts that are among the most influential in Chinese medical history: the Treatise on Cold Damage Disorders (Shāng Hán Lùn, 伤寒论) and Essential Prescriptions from the Golden Cabinet (Jīn Guì Yào Lüè, 金匮要略). However, what is less well-known is that Zhang Zhongjing authored several other texts, all of which were lost over time, with the sole exception of the Five Viscera Theory (Wǔ Záng Lùn, 五藏论). This was discovered in 1900 in a hidden library of China’s Mogao Caves of Dunhuang by a Taoist priest named Wang Yuanlu. The History and Compilation of Zhang...
World Englishes
The book is the first of its kind to establish Cognitive Linguistics as a research paradigm within the field of world Englishes. The authors survey the main tenets of both areas of linguistic enquiry and suggest that the theoretical and methodological apparatus developed both within Cognitive Linguistics generally and within its novel sub-discipline Cognitive Sociolinguistics can overcome certain limitations inherent in traditional approaches to cultural variation in language. They present a case study of the linguistic realization of the cultural model of community in African English as an exemplar for the investigation of cultural models in other varieties of English. Corpus-linguistic met...
Aspects linguistiques et sociolinguistiques des français africains
Environ 30% des francophones dans le monde vivent aujourd’hui en Afrique subsaharienne; en 2060, ils seront probablement 85% à cause du taux de croissance démographique exceptionnel de l’Afrique tout entière. Les français africains vont donc jouer un rôle de plus en plus important au sein de la francophonie. Les auteurs réunis dans ce volume les placent au coeur de leur réflexion en s’interrogeant sur leurs statuts, leurs spécificités, leurs écologies, leur évolution dans différents contextes, toujours dans le but de montrer la richesse de ce patrimoine linguistique qui nous est en partie encore inconnu. Cet ouvrage collectif est dédié à Adriana Piga qui à travers son e...
Il pensiero letterario come fondamento di una testa ben fatta
La pubblicazione degli Atti del convegno internazionale Il pensiero letterario come fondamento di una testa ben fatta si propone di dare ampia disseminazione a riflessioni di studiosi che, a partire da approcci disciplinari diversi, si interrogano tutti circa l’importanza del testo letterario quale fattore strutturante di un modo complesso e ricco di guardare il mondo; di comprendere meglio se stessi e gli altri; di concepire la rete di relazioni, nel tempo e nello spazio, che compone il nostro ambiente di vita, fisico e mentale; di elaborare nuove prospettive di visione o forme di accesso alla realtà e al linguaggio più intime e dirette, come fa, ad esempio, la poesia. Sul solco del concetto di “testa ben fatta”, da Montaigne a Edgar Morin, la letteratura appare come una fondamentale modalità di connessione e di comprensione dei molteplici aspetti che realizzano la nostra umanità, per noi che siamo, innanzi tutto, degli «esseri di parola e di testi». Le Scienze dell’educazione traggono certamente vantaggio da questa consapevolezza, anche, o soprattutto, nel mondo attuale.
