Robert K Herbert
Biographic Data
| ID | 102429 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert K Herbert |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert K |
| FAMILY NAME | Herbert |
| SIGNATURE | HERBERT R K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Binghamton University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 152 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1977 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Anthroponymy and Cultural Change in Southern Africa
Personal Names as Social Protest
An earlier study noted a sharp rise in the incidence of “political names” given to South African children, especially boys, born 1990-1992, compared with those born earlier and suggested that this increase reflected a history-keeping function of personal names. Other interpretations are offered and it is suggested that such names may be more profitably classed with names offering social commentary, especially social friction. These names are then…
Of Barbers and Bottle Shops
It is well-known that African personal names are acts of linguistic creativity, in which almost any word, phrase or sentence may serve as an input base. Preliminary examination of a corpus of business names, collected during 1992-1996, suggests the same. Names are coined by both business owners and community members, and both types may become official registrations. Some name types are unsurprising, e.g. those in which businesses are named after …
The Power of Babel
The Power of Babel: Language and Governance in the African Experience. Ali A. Mazrui and Alamin M. Mazrui. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998. 228 pp
Codes and Consequences
Codes and Consequences: Choosing Linguistic Varieties. Carol Myers-Scotton. ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. 219 pp
The Politics of Personal Naming in South Africa
The relationship between naming and sociocultural meaning among the peoples of southern Africa is changing. A comparison of names bestowed in two time periods shows how patterns of naming reflect sociocultural changes, including the demands of a centralized bureaucracy and the urbanization of populations. The ways in which systems of naming responded to recent political events in South Africa is examined. In line with the traditional history-keep…
Language and Society in Africa
Introduction: language in a divided society Robert K. Herbert SECTION I: Language policy Language policies in Africa Bernd Heine Language policies in AFrica: the case for Chichewa in Malawi Enoch Timpunza Mvula Diagnostic and therapeutic aspects of sociolinguistics in pre-independent Namibia: the effects of first and second order observation Rajmund Ohly Language and social history in South Africa: a task still to be undertaken David Brown SECTIO…
New Perspectives on Eastern Bantu
A combined anthropological and linguistics project tested the validity of the East/West classification of Bantu languages. We compared ‘cultural profiles’ (worldview, social organization and settlement pattern) and grammatical elements (phonological, morphological and syntactic features) of several languages commonly classified as Eastern. Using Sotho-Tswana and Nguni as a datum for Eastern and Kongo and Chokwe for Western, we found that Chaga an…
A new perspective on Bantu expansion and classification
1993). A new perspective on Bantu expansion and classification. African Studies: Vol. 52, No. 2, pp. 53-76
Social/Cultural Anthropology
A Linguistic Analysis of Venda
The sociology of compliment work
The two-part speech compliment is examined in Polish from the contrastive perspective of previous work on English compliments. The primary data for analysis consist of 400 compliment events (compliment + compliment response) collected ethnographically in Poland. Both English and Polish compliments are highly formulaic, employing a small set of syntactic and semantic formulae for expression; the two formula sets reveal broad similarities and few d…
Archeology
Linguistic Anthropology
Sex-based differences in compliment behavior
Sex-based differences in the form of English compliments and in the frequencies of various compliment response types are discussed. Based on a corpus of 1,062 compliment events, several differences in the form of compliments used by women and men are noted. Further, it is found that compliments from men are generally accepted, especially by female recipients, whereas compliments from women are met with a response type other than acceptance. These…
Analytical Tsonga Grammar
Compliment-rejection versus compliment-avoidance
Language Universals, Markedness Theory, and Natural Phonetic Processes
Typology, Relationship and Time
Contrastive Linguistics
Say "Thank You" - Or Something
Sociolinguistics and psychopathology
Auditory hallucinations experienced by bilingual individuals and responses to such internal stimuli demonstrate the relationship between social context and individual manifestation of psychopathology. The hallucinations of twelve de‐institutionalised schizophrenics are reported in this paper. Particular attention is directed to the relationships between the manifest content of the hallucination, the language of hallucination, and the sociocultura…
Linguistics
Cerebral asymmetry in bilinguals and the deaf
In a recent article appearing in this journal, Panou and Sewell (1981) review a number of neurolinguistic investigations of lateralisation in the deaf. The authors point to certain parallels between the lateralisation patterns of deaf individuals and those of some bilinguals, notably a general reduction in the degree of lateralisation and a right hemisphere preference for some linguistic stimuli. On the basis of this similarity, the audiors attri…
Patterns in Language, Culture, and Society
Sex-based differences in compliment behavior
Sex-based differences in the form of English compliments and in the frequencies of various compliment response types are discussed. Based on a corpus of 1,062 compliment events, several differences in the form of compliments used by women and men are noted. Further, it is found that compliments from men are generally accepted, especially by female recipients, whereas compliments from women are met with a response type other than acceptance. These…
The Power of Babel
The Power of Babel: Language and Governance in the African Experience. Ali A. Mazrui and Alamin M. Mazrui. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998. 228 pp
Say "Thank You" - Or Something
Compliment-rejection versus compliment-avoidance
Codes and Consequences
Codes and Consequences: Choosing Linguistic Varieties. Carol Myers-Scotton. ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. 219 pp
The Politics of Personal Naming in South Africa
The relationship between naming and sociocultural meaning among the peoples of southern Africa is changing. A comparison of names bestowed in two time periods shows how patterns of naming reflect sociocultural changes, including the demands of a centralized bureaucracy and the urbanization of populations. The ways in which systems of naming responded to recent political events in South Africa is examined. In line with the traditional history-keep…
The sociology of compliment work
The two-part speech compliment is examined in Polish from the contrastive perspective of previous work on English compliments. The primary data for analysis consist of 400 compliment events (compliment + compliment response) collected ethnographically in Poland. Both English and Polish compliments are highly formulaic, employing a small set of syntactic and semantic formulae for expression; the two formula sets reveal broad similarities and few d…
Phonetic analysis in phonological description
Personal Names as Social Protest
An earlier study noted a sharp rise in the incidence of “political names” given to South African children, especially boys, born 1990-1992, compared with those born earlier and suggested that this increase reflected a history-keeping function of personal names. Other interpretations are offered and it is suggested that such names may be more profitably classed with names offering social commentary, especially social friction. These names are then…
New Perspectives on Eastern Bantu
A combined anthropological and linguistics project tested the validity of the East/West classification of Bantu languages. We compared ‘cultural profiles’ (worldview, social organization and settlement pattern) and grammatical elements (phonological, morphological and syntactic features) of several languages commonly classified as Eastern. Using Sotho-Tswana and Nguni as a datum for Eastern and Kongo and Chokwe for Western, we found that Chaga an…
Of Barbers and Bottle Shops
It is well-known that African personal names are acts of linguistic creativity, in which almost any word, phrase or sentence may serve as an input base. Preliminary examination of a corpus of business names, collected during 1992-1996, suggests the same. Names are coined by both business owners and community members, and both types may become official registrations. Some name types are unsurprising, e.g. those in which businesses are named after …
A new perspective on Bantu expansion and classification
1993). A new perspective on Bantu expansion and classification. African Studies: Vol. 52, No. 2, pp. 53-76
Phonetic analysis in phonological description
Patterns in Language, Culture, and Society
Morphological re-analysis in the Bantu nasal class
By way of summary, we have discussed in some detail the issue of the synchronic status of Class 9/10a prefixes in Bantu. We suggested that in some languages these forms may have been restructured so that the historical prefix, or at least part of the prefix, and its effect are incorporated into the noun stem due to the non‐alternating nature of these forms. Various types of evidence which might be cited to defend a synchronic analysis which posit…
Cerebral asymmetry in bilinguals and the deaf
In a recent article appearing in this journal, Panou and Sewell (1981) review a number of neurolinguistic investigations of lateralisation in the deaf. The authors point to certain parallels between the lateralisation patterns of deaf individuals and those of some bilinguals, notably a general reduction in the degree of lateralisation and a right hemisphere preference for some linguistic stimuli. On the basis of this similarity, the audiors attri…
Sociolinguistics and psychopathology
Auditory hallucinations experienced by bilingual individuals and responses to such internal stimuli demonstrate the relationship between social context and individual manifestation of psychopathology. The hallucinations of twelve de‐institutionalised schizophrenics are reported in this paper. Particular attention is directed to the relationships between the manifest content of the hallucination, the language of hallucination, and the sociocultura…
Linguistics
Contrastive Linguistics
Say "Thank You" - Or Something
Typology, Relationship and Time
Language Universals, Markedness Theory, and Natural Phonetic Processes
Analytical Tsonga Grammar
Compliment-rejection versus compliment-avoidance
Archeology
Linguistic Anthropology
Sex-based differences in compliment behavior
Sex-based differences in the form of English compliments and in the frequencies of various compliment response types are discussed. Based on a corpus of 1,062 compliment events, several differences in the form of compliments used by women and men are noted. Further, it is found that compliments from men are generally accepted, especially by female recipients, whereas compliments from women are met with a response type other than acceptance. These…
The sociology of compliment work
The two-part speech compliment is examined in Polish from the contrastive perspective of previous work on English compliments. The primary data for analysis consist of 400 compliment events (compliment + compliment response) collected ethnographically in Poland. Both English and Polish compliments are highly formulaic, employing a small set of syntactic and semantic formulae for expression; the two formula sets reveal broad similarities and few d…
A Linguistic Analysis of Venda
A new perspective on Bantu expansion and classification
1993). A new perspective on Bantu expansion and classification. African Studies: Vol. 52, No. 2, pp. 53-76
Social/Cultural Anthropology
Language and Society in Africa
Introduction: language in a divided society Robert K. Herbert SECTION I: Language policy Language policies in Africa Bernd Heine Language policies in AFrica: the case for Chichewa in Malawi Enoch Timpunza Mvula Diagnostic and therapeutic aspects of sociolinguistics in pre-independent Namibia: the effects of first and second order observation Rajmund Ohly Language and social history in South Africa: a task still to be undertaken David Brown SECTIO…
New Perspectives on Eastern Bantu
A combined anthropological and linguistics project tested the validity of the East/West classification of Bantu languages. We compared ‘cultural profiles’ (worldview, social organization and settlement pattern) and grammatical elements (phonological, morphological and syntactic features) of several languages commonly classified as Eastern. Using Sotho-Tswana and Nguni as a datum for Eastern and Kongo and Chokwe for Western, we found that Chaga an…
The Politics of Personal Naming in South Africa
The relationship between naming and sociocultural meaning among the peoples of southern Africa is changing. A comparison of names bestowed in two time periods shows how patterns of naming reflect sociocultural changes, including the demands of a centralized bureaucracy and the urbanization of populations. The ways in which systems of naming responded to recent political events in South Africa is examined. In line with the traditional history-keep…
Codes and Consequences
Codes and Consequences: Choosing Linguistic Varieties. Carol Myers-Scotton. ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. 219 pp
Anthroponymy and Cultural Change in Southern Africa
Personal Names as Social Protest
An earlier study noted a sharp rise in the incidence of “political names” given to South African children, especially boys, born 1990-1992, compared with those born earlier and suggested that this increase reflected a history-keeping function of personal names. Other interpretations are offered and it is suggested that such names may be more profitably classed with names offering social commentary, especially social friction. These names are then…
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