Anthropological Linguistics: Perspectives from Africa
Edited by Andrea Hollington, Alice Mitchell and Nico Nassenstein
[Culture and Language Use, 23] 2024. xiii, 485 pp.
Andrea Hollington
List of John Benjamins publications for which Andrea Hollington plays a role.
Titles
Subjects Anthropological Linguistics
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.
Subjects Anthropological Linguistics | Applied linguistics | Cognition and language | Cognitive psychology | Communication Studies | Pragmatics
Traveling Conceptualizations: A cognitive and anthropological linguistic study of Jamaican
Andrea Hollington
[Culture and Language Use, 14] 2015. xxiv, 242 pp.
Subjects Anthropological Linguistics | Cognitive linguistics | Contact Linguistics | Creole studies | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology | Theoretical linguistics
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
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
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
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
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