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Journal articles on the topic "Spoken Akan"

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McPherson, Laura, and Michael Obiri-Yeboah. "Akan tone encoding across musical modalities." Studies in African Linguistics 52, no. 1and2 (2024): 160–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.32473/sal.52.1and2.133067.

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Musical surrogate languages like talking drums remain understudied in the linguistics literature, despite their close connection with the phonetics and phonology of the spoken language. African surrogate languages tend to be based on tone, making them a unique angle for studying a language’s tonal system. This paper looks at the encoding of Akan tone in three instrumental surrogate languages: the atumpan drums, the seperewa harp, and the abɛntia horn trumpet. Each instrument presents different organological constraints that could shape how the tone system is transposed to musical form. Drawing

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Ansah, Gladys Nyarko. "Cognitive models of anger in Akan." Cognitive Linguistic Studies 1, no. 1 (2014): 131–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/cogls.1.1.06ans.

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This paper analyses the conventional metaphorical expressions of anger in Akan, a Kwa language spoken in Ghana, West Africa, in order to identify conventional conceptual metaphors of the concept in the language. Native and relatively monolingual speakers of Akan in semi-rural and rural Ghana participated in focus group discussions to generate a corpus of 23,800 words from which metaphorical expressions of anger were drawn. The analysis reveals that Akan conceptualisations of anger are based on both general metonymic and metaphorical principles that are grounded in fundamental human experiences

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Guerini, Federica. "Language contact, language mixing and identity: The Akan spoken by Ghanaian immigrants in northern Italy." International Journal of Bilingualism 18, no. 4 (2013): 363–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1367006913481138.

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Rusnandar, Nandang. "UGA SEBAGAI MEMORY KOLEKTIF MASYARAKAT SUNDA (Uga Sunda Community as a Collective Memory)." METASASTRA: Jurnal Penelitian Sastra 4, no. 1 (2016): 55. http://dx.doi.org/10.26610/metasastra.2011.v4i1.55-67.

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Uga merupakan salah satu tradisi lisan masyarakat Sunda, di dalamnya terkumpul segenap memori kolektif. Analisis terhadap uga meliputi nilai-nilai dalam bentuk simbol yang tersirat di dalamnya. Uga mampu meramalkan perubahan sosial sesuai dengan zamannya. Apabila dilihat dari orientasi waktu, uga dapat menunjukkan: (1) tercipta dan dituturkan pada masa lampau; (2) dituturkan pada masa lampau dan terjadi pada waktu lalu; (3) dituturkan pada masa lampau dan sekarang (sedang terjadi); (4) dituturkan pada masa lampau, ramalan untuk masa yang akan datang. Fungsi uga di samping memprediksi ia juga h

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Agyekum, Kofi, Joshua Amuah, and Adwoa Arhine. "Proverbs and stylistic devices of Akwasi Ampofo Agyei’s Akan highlife lyrics." Legon Journal of the Humanities 31, no. 1 (2020): 117–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.4314/ljh.v31i1.5.

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This paper examines the stylistic features and proverbs in ɔba nyansafo wɔbu no bɛ na wɔnka no asɛm, ‘A wise child is spoken to in proverbs’ a popular Ghanaian highlife song by the late Akwasi Ampofo Agyei. This is an area which is still grey in the study of highlife music. The paper basically adopted qualitative methodology through interviews and recordings. The paper combines the theories of language ideology and ethnomusicology, and looks at the indispensable, didactic and communicative functions of stylistic devices and proverbs in Akan highlife. These tropes as forms of indirection help t

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Agyekum, Kofi, Joshua Amuah, and Adwoa Arhine. "Proverbs and stylistic devices of Akwasi Ampofo Agyei’s Akan highlife lyrics." Legon Journal of the Humanities 31, no. 1 (2020): 117–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.4314/ljh.v31i1.5.

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This paper examines the stylistic features and proverbs in ɔba nyansafo wɔbu no bɛ na wɔnka no asɛm, ‘A wise child is spoken to in proverbs’ a popular Ghanaian highlife song by the late Akwasi Ampofo Agyei. This is an area which is still grey in the study of highlife music. The paper basically adopted qualitative methodology through interviews and recordings. The paper combines the theories of language ideology and ethnomusicology, and looks at the indispensable, didactic and communicative functions of stylistic devices and proverbs in Akan highlife. These tropes as forms of indirection help t

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Korsah, Sampson, and Andrew Murphy. "The Absence of Islands in Akan: The Role of Resumption." Languages 9, no. 4 (2024): 127. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/languages9040127.

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The precise nature of Ā-dependencies that terminate in a pronoun has been a long-standing subject of cross-linguistic research. Traditionally, it has been assumed that there are two derivational strategies to form resumptive Ā-dependencies: movement and base generation. Island configurations have played a crucial role in determining which derivational strategy is employed in a given language, as islands effects are expected to arise from dependencies created by movement but not by base generation. The body of cross-linguistic research on resumption has shown that the situation is more complica

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Ahmad Imam Muttaqin. "INTERFERENSI FONOLOGIS BAHASA BANJAR HULU PADA MASYARAKAT BANJAR DALAM BERBAHASA INDONESIA." DIALEKTIKA: JURNAL BAHASA, SASTRA DAN BUDAYA 8, no. 2 (2021): 134–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.33541/dia.v8i2.3728.

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Abstrak Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengungkap interferensi yang terjadi pada Bahasa Indonesia saat seorang penutur asli Bahasa Banjar Hulu bertutur dengan Bahasa Indonesia. Terdapat beberapa bentuk interferensi fonologis yang terjadi. Penelitian ini juga mengungkap bagaimana kaidah dari interferensi tersebut sehingga masyarakat luas tidak akan merasa asing lagi akan interferensi yang terjadi ini dan dapat memaklumi fenomena interferensi kebahasaan itu sendiri sebagai suatu fenomena normal. Penelitian ini berupa penelitian kualitatif deskriptif yang akan memaparkan tentang bentuk inte

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Acheampong, Bliss. "The conceptual framing of time in Mfantse." International Journal of English Language and Linguistics Research 10, no. 2 (2022): 38–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.37745/ijellr.13/vo10.n2pp3859.

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The notion of time is common and duly recognized by all people and all languages in the world. However, our perception and conceptualization of time, as evidenced in recent disputing arguments, is not the same across all human languages and cultures. This is probably because time is neither a tangible nor a visible phenomenon. The main objective of this study is to examine the qualities or properties of source domains highlighted by the linguistic expressions used to talk about time in Mfantse, a dialect of the Akan language. (Akan is a Kwa language spoken by a large group of people called Aka

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Adjaye, Sophia A. "Fante: the orthography versus speech." Journal of the International Phonetic Association 15, no. 2 (1989): 23–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0025100300002954.

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This paper aims to show the relationship between the writing system of Fante and its spoken form, and to explore the extent to which Fante orthography can be said to be phonemic. This involves a consideration of the correlation between the vowel and consonant phonemes and their symbolization in the orthography, and of the account taken of nasalization, length, elision, assimilation, and vowel harmony. The proposed Unified Akan Orthography (The Bureau of Ghana, Legon: 1978) is discussed in this light. The term Akan is used to refer to the Fante and Twi dialects of Southern Ghana.

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Books on the topic "Spoken Akan"

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Obeng, Samuel Gyasi. Conversational strategies in Akan: Prosodic features and discourse categories. Köppe, 1999.

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Drapeau, Lynn. Innu (Algonquian). Edited by Michael Fortescue, Marianne Mithun, and Nicholas Evans. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199683208.013.31.

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This chapter is devoted to Innu (aka Montagnais), a member of the Algonquian language family, spoken by roughly 13,000 people in eleven communities scattered over Northeastern Québec and Labrador in Canada. The language forms part of the Cree-Innu-Naskapi dialect continuum (Quebec and Labrador) with ties to the other Cree dialects spoken west of Québec, all the way to the Rocky Mountains in Alberta.The chapter aims at providing a broad description of the main features of the language from a functional typological viewpoint with special emphasis on the aspects that are of interest to the study

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Rembis, Michael. Writing Mad Lives in the Age of the Asylum. Oxford University PressNew York, NY, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/9780197604861.001.0001.

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Abstract Using the writing of former asylum inmates, as well as other sources, Writing Mad Lives in the Age of the Asylum reveals a history of madness and the asylum that has remained hidden by a focus on doctors, diagnoses, and other interventions into mad people’s lives. Although those details are present in this story, its focus is the hundreds of inmates who spoke out or published pamphlets, memorials, memoirs, and articles about their experiences. They recalled physical beatings and prolonged restraint and isolation. They described what it felt like to be gawked at like animals by visitor

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Book chapters on the topic "Spoken Akan"

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Gębski, Wiktor. "Comparative Notes on the Jewish Arabic Dialects of Gabes and Djerba (Tunisia)." In Interconnected Traditions: Semitic Languages, Literatures, Cultures—A Festschrift for Geoffrey Khan. Open Book Publishers, 2025. https://doi.org/10.11647/obp.0464.13.

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The article examines the Jewish Arabic dialects of Gabes and Djerba, two geographically proximate yet linguistically distinct varieties spoken in southern Tunisia. The study highlights significant phonological differences, such as the vowel inventory and the realisation of sibilants, with Jewish Gabes featuring three phonemic vowels and retroflex sibilants, while Jewish Djerba exhibits a reduced vowel system and fronted palatal sibilants. Syntactically, the dialects differ in their future tense markers; Jewish Gabes employs both the particle bāš and the grammaticalised participle ḥabb, while

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Parker, John. "Speaking of Death." In In My Time of Dying. Princeton University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.23943/princeton/9780691193151.003.0004.

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The chapter highlights the rise of the Asante forest kingdom and what oral histories of that epochal event have to say about death, dying and the dead. It focuses on an aspect of Akan mortuary culture touched on in the previous chapters: the ways in which death was spoken about or, as was often the case, not spoken about. Asante tradition records that the kingdom was forged by the combined genius of two men: Osei Tutu, the omanhene of Kumasi and then the first Asantehene, and Komfo Anokye, the ritual specialist or 'priest' (okomfo) Anokye; these two were ably assisted by a third figure, the mi

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Knapik, Aleksandra R. "Zarys początków tłumaczeń konferencyjnych." In Beyond Language. Æ Academic, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.52769/bl1.0014.akna.

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The aim of this article is to present the turbulent historical beginnings of simultaneous conference interpreting. The onset date for the beginnings is the day of the Nurnberg Trials on the 20th of November 1945. The multilingual conduct of the trial was made possible due to the pioneering system created by the IBM company. The method of consecutive interpreting that was used at almost all multinational assemblies up to 1945 would have surely lengthened the trial dramatically since the trial participants of the trial spoke four foreign languages, i.e. Russian, English, German, and French. As U

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Dakubu, M. E. Kropp. "Upstream, Inland: Other People’s Languages." In Korle Meets the Sea. Oxford University PressNew York, NY, 1997. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195060614.003.0006.

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Abstract Although both widespread polyglotism and societal multilingualism may have been encouraged by the massive assimilation of people who spoke languages other than Ga, they are obviously not a simple result of it. Linguistic assimilation of a population can lead to the elimination of its language as a second language as well as to its maintenance. Many individual descendants of assimilated populations have indeed lost all command of their ancestral community language, and only one of the various languages mentioned in the last chapter, Akan, has in fact taken hold as a second language in

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Robb, Thomas K. "Thatcher Comes to Power." In Jimmy Carter and the Anglo-American 'Special Relationship'. Edinburgh University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474407014.003.0005.

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Margaret Thatcher’s coming to power threatened to bring with a radically different British foreign policy. In her public speeches prior to assuming office she had spoken about how superpower détente was akin to a policy of appeasement and should be abandoned. Her Conservative Party manifesto of 1979 hinted that the Anglo-American agreement on Rhodesia should be dropped and the Salisbury Accords accepted as a basis of a political solution in Rhodesia. Washington was troubled by Thatcher’s likely foreign policy trajectory. This chapter explores this first crucial year of Thatcher’s premiership a

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Gidal, Marc. "SamBop, Brazuca, and Transnational Polymusicalities." In SamBop NYC. Oxford University Press, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197619049.003.0003.

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Abstract Chapter 2, “SamBop, Brazuca, and Transnational Polymusicalities,” uses the framework of transnational polymusicalities—combining transnationalism with the ethnomusicology theory of bimusicality—to interpret the professional musicians who played Brazilian jazz in New York City between 2000 and 2020. The musicians developed affinities and identifications with Brazil and the United States through their prolonged study and practice of music, gaining intercultural competencies with language, customs, history, and interpersonal relations. A discourse among musicians about musical accents, a

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Leafloor, Stephen “Buddha.” "“They Come for the Hip Hop but Stay for the Healing”." In The Oxford Handbook of Hip Hop Dance Studies. Oxford University Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190247867.013.20.

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Abstract This chapter is about mental health outreach and community healing through Hip Hop in remote Indigenous communities, Canada’s high Arctic, and in maximum-security youth prisons. It considers empowering youth to heal and find their own voices using a variety of best-practice techniques, including traditional culture and the elements of Hip Hop, also utilizing the power of the drum, stomping, meditation, and the spoken word. Blueprintforlife and Blueprint Pathways were founded by Canadian B-boy Stephen Leafloor, aka “Buddha” who has been streetdancing since 1975. Their work has been the

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Silber, Nina. "Slaves of the Depression." In This War Ain't Over. University of North Carolina Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.5149/northcarolina/9781469646541.003.0004.

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The language of slavery reverberated over the course of the Depression, with many Americans describing their working and living conditions in these years as something akin to slavery. Yet the language of “white enslavement” assumed particular power in these years, especially for the way it spoke to the immediate and unexpected economic crisis experienced by white Americans. In contrast, black enslavement seemed quaint and far less troubling. This pattern was apparent in the dramas put on by the Federal Theatre, the interviews conducted by writers in the WPA with former slaves, and in Hollywood

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Agawu, Kofi. "Tonality as a Colonizing Force in Africa." In On African Music. Oxford University PressNew York, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197664063.003.0003.

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Abstract This chapter argues that tonality, the single most influential system of pitch organization in European music, has functioned as a colonizing force in Africa. A system of manifestly foreign origins, tonality has gained increasing visibility in Africa since it was introduced in the nineteenth century by Christian missionaries. What forms of tonality were exported to Africa, and what sorts of traces have they left on the African soundscape? What was that soundscape like before tonality arrived? If tonality is akin to a language, how has it been “spoken” in Africa, and how has it shaped

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Mendicino, Kristina. "The Pitfalls of Translating Philosophy: Or, the Languages of G. W. F. Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit." In Prophecies of Language. Fordham University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.5422/fordham/9780823274017.003.0002.

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The Hegelian logos should not be contingent upon the particular language in which it is articulated; translation should therefore be no real concern for Hegel. Yet surprisingly, Hegel describes his Phenomenology of Spirit in a letter to Johann Heinrich Voss as an attempt akin to Voss’s and Martin Luther’s monumental translations of Homer and the Bible. Differently than his predecessors, however, Hegel does not seek to translate a canonical text, but a philosophical language that was never spoken or written before. Taking this letter as a point of departure, the chapter shows how Hegel’s Phenom

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Conference papers on the topic "Spoken Akan"

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Chen, Shih-Chi, Dariusz Golda, Ariel Herrmann, and Alexander H. Slocum. "Design of an Ultra Precision Diaphragm Flexure Stage for Out-of-Plane Motion Guidance." In ASME 2004 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference. ASMEDC, 2004. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/detc2004-57401.

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An ultra-precision diaphragm flexure stage was designed and optimized for pure out-of-plane Z-motion guidance with an effort to minimize parasitic lateral and tilt motions. The diaphragm flexure stage will be used to guide an objective lens along the optical axis in a high performance microscope. A concept with cross-linked radial spoke geometry akin to a bicycle wheel was designed to maximize its in-plane to out-of-plane stiffness ratio. The geometry was then optimized using finite element analysis. Several prototypes were manufactured using an abrasive water jet machining center and tested w

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Reports on the topic "Spoken Akan"

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Nucera, Diana J., and Catalina Vallejo. Media-making Pedagogies for Empowerment & Social Change: An Interview with Diana J. Nucera (AKA Mother Cyborg). Just Tech, Social Science Research Council, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.35650/jt.3022.d.2022.

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" As part of our “What Is Just Tech?” series, we invited several social researchers–scholars, practitioners, artists, and activists—to respond to a simple yet fundamental question: “What is just technology?” This interview was conducted by Just Tech program officer Catalina Vallejo, who spoke with Diana J. Nucera, AKA Mother Cyborg, a multimedia artist, educator, and organizer based in Detroit, Michigan. Nucera (she/her) uses music, performance, DIY publishing, community-organizing tactics, and popular education methods to elevate collective technological consciousness and agency. Her art draw

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