Wilfred Whiteley
Biographic Data
| ID | 178515 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Wilfred Whiteley |
| GIVEN NAMES | Wilfred |
| FAMILY NAME | Whiteley |
| SIGNATURE | WHITELEY W |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 34 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1954 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Swahili: The Rise of a National Language
Originally published in 1969, this book examines the factors which at different historical periods led people to use one language (Swahili) rather than another, or within a given period, to use a particular language in one set of circumstances. The national language of Tanzania and much of East Africa, Swahili is unique among African languages in its verse literature, which dates back to the 18th Century and was written in the Arabic script. This…
Language Use and Social Change: Problems of Multilingualism with Special Reference to Eastern Africa
Language Policies of Independent African States
Swahili: The Rise of a National Language
The Concept of an African Prose Literature
Prose is simply defined in the Shorter Oxford Dictionary as "... the ordinary form of written or spoken language without metrical structure" and certainly for a majority of native English speakers this definition serves well enough, though in English, prose is more usually understood to be written rather than spoken. Most people have a more or less clear idea of what they mean by prose, if only because there is a large body of accepted verse with…
Modern Local Government among the Makua
Opening ParagraphThe Makua, with their neighbours the Mwera and Makonde, form the most north-easterly extension of the great belt of matrilineal peoples stretching eastward from the Congo through Nyasaland and Northern Rhodesia to Mozambique and South Tanganyika. They have been little studied, either by anthropologist or linguist, and the scanty literature, none of it later than 1930, reflects the passing impressions of travellers rather than the…
Swahili: The Rise of a National Language
Originally published in 1969, this book examines the factors which at different historical periods led people to use one language (Swahili) rather than another, or within a given period, to use a particular language in one set of circumstances. The national language of Tanzania and much of East Africa, Swahili is unique among African languages in its verse literature, which dates back to the 18th Century and was written in the Arabic script. This…
Swahili: The Rise of a National Language
Modern Local Government among the Makua
Opening ParagraphThe Makua, with their neighbours the Mwera and Makonde, form the most north-easterly extension of the great belt of matrilineal peoples stretching eastward from the Congo through Nyasaland and Northern Rhodesia to Mozambique and South Tanganyika. They have been little studied, either by anthropologist or linguist, and the scanty literature, none of it later than 1930, reflects the passing impressions of travellers rather than the…
The Concept of an African Prose Literature
Prose is simply defined in the Shorter Oxford Dictionary as "... the ordinary form of written or spoken language without metrical structure" and certainly for a majority of native English speakers this definition serves well enough, though in English, prose is more usually understood to be written rather than spoken. Most people have a more or less clear idea of what they mean by prose, if only because there is a large body of accepted verse with…
Swahili: The Rise of a National Language
Language Policies of Independent African States
Language Use and Social Change: Problems of Multilingualism with Special Reference to Eastern Africa
Swahili: The Rise of a National Language
Originally published in 1969, this book examines the factors which at different historical periods led people to use one language (Swahili) rather than another, or within a given period, to use a particular language in one set of circumstances. The national language of Tanzania and much of East Africa, Swahili is unique among African languages in its verse literature, which dates back to the 18th Century and was written in the Arabic script. This…
Linguistics (6 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · History (4 works) · African history and culture studies (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · African history and culture analysis (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories (2 works) · History (2 works)