Rose Marie Beck
Biographic Data
| ID | 184937 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rose Marie Beck |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rose Marie |
| FAMILY NAME | Beck |
| SIGNATURE | BECK R M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Leipzig University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 27 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
A frica, Language Research in
Most research on languages in Africa in one way or another reflects the continent's tremendous linguistic diversity. That languages have become such an important marker of difference, identity, and inequality is a result of the protracted colonial encounter and the definition of powerful linguistic ideologies. Intellectual developments in Europe produced a notion of language that essentialized it as inextricably bound up with ethnicity and territ…
Language as apparatus: Entanglements of Language, Culture and Territory and the Invention of Nation and Ethnicity
Postcolonial linguistics has shown that African languages emerged from a complex figuration of missionary, scientific and colonial practices. The article interprets this emergence as the result of an existential onto-epistemological dislocation stabilised through the hegemonic project of colonialism. It rests on an apparatus of modernity that separated nature and culture/society and stabilised this new order with a particular notion of language a…
Abdilatif Abdalla: Poet in Politics
Tusidanganyane – Let’s not fool ourselves! Knowledge production and HIV Prevention in Nairobi (Kenya)
Empirically situated in the Swahili-Sheng speaking context of Nairobi (Kenya) and based on ethnographic conversation analysis, this paper presents a case of knowledge production through a particular verbal routine, i.e. a speaker initiated repair which turns Common Ground into Common Knowledge. With this particular routine young disadvantaged youth strategically make use of their local knowledge producing means to fundamentally and powerfully rej…
Sheng: An urban variety of Swahili in Kenya
Urban Languages in Africa
Against the backdrop of current research on the city, urbanity is understood to be a distinct way of life in which (in the spatial, factual and historical dimensions) processes of densification and heterogenization are perceived as acts of sociation. Urbanization is thus understood to include and produce structuration processes autonomously; this also includes autonomous linguistic practices, which are reflected as sediments of everyday knowledge…
Gender, innovation and ambiguity: Speech prohibitions as a resource for ‘space to move’
This article is based on the observation that in African women’s interactional practices, there is a space ‘between speech and silence’ (Gal, 1991), an ambiguous space between norm and sanction (Jaworski et al., 2005: 4), which allows for the negotiation of socially and culturally adequate gendered behaviour. As it is a space of negotiation, it is also one of social change. Notions of gender, ambiguity and risk, which are characteristic for this …
Popular media for HIV/Aids prevention? Comparing two comics: Kingo and the Sara Communication Initiative
This paper draws attention to some assumptions implicit in HIV/AIDS communication or prevention campaigns which use popular culture media, in this instance comics. Theoretically the analysis is placed in a framework of popular culture as the arena of negotiations about claims over hegemonic discourses. Methodologically the internal logics of a local Swahili comic from the magazine Kingo and of a comic from the Sara Initiative in Swahili (UNICEF-E…
Texts on textiles: Proverbiality as characteristic of equivocal communication at the East African coast (Swahili)
This article argues that proverbiality may be understood to include more than abstract properties of short, poetically condensed texts. Rather, proverbiality is seen as a characteristic of a specific communicative strategy in which equivocation plays a major role. The proverb itself is perceived as its manifestation. The empirical material on which this hypothesis is based consists of case studies of interpersonal communication by means of the wr…
Swahili. Perceptions of gender in Swahili language and society
1.Introduction 2.Noun classes in Swahili 2.1Swahili noun classification and agreement 2.2Animate nouns 2.3Coordination 2.4Personal nouns 3.Referring to women and men 3.1Lexical and covert gender 3.2Kinship terms and terms of address 3.3Overt gender marking: Attributing ‘female/male’ 3.4Obscene language 4.Gendered speech 4.1 Upole ‘gentleness’: Restrained speech as a cultural ideal on the Swahili coast 4.2Texts on textiles: Equivocal messages 5.Co…
Verbale und non-verbale Kleiderkommunikation am Indischen Ozean (Swahili, Ostafrika)
Aesthetics of Communication: Texts on Textiles ( Leso ) from the East African Coast (Swahili)
The leso, 1 a wrap cloth, is an object of everyday use on which proverbial art is visually represented in writing. It serves as a means of equivocal interpersonal communication (see Bavelas et al.), which is achieved by playing on processes of (communicative and semiotic) representation. With this communication the participants have a means to transgress culturally defined boundaries of power and powerlessness. In other words, the cloth lends the…
Texts on textiles: Proverbiality as characteristic of equivocal communication at the East African coast (Swahili)
This article argues that proverbiality may be understood to include more than abstract properties of short, poetically condensed texts. Rather, proverbiality is seen as a characteristic of a specific communicative strategy in which equivocation plays a major role. The proverb itself is perceived as its manifestation. The empirical material on which this hypothesis is based consists of case studies of interpersonal communication by means of the wr…
Urban Languages in Africa
Against the backdrop of current research on the city, urbanity is understood to be a distinct way of life in which (in the spatial, factual and historical dimensions) processes of densification and heterogenization are perceived as acts of sociation. Urbanization is thus understood to include and produce structuration processes autonomously; this also includes autonomous linguistic practices, which are reflected as sediments of everyday knowledge…
Gender, innovation and ambiguity: Speech prohibitions as a resource for ‘space to move’
This article is based on the observation that in African women’s interactional practices, there is a space ‘between speech and silence’ (Gal, 1991), an ambiguous space between norm and sanction (Jaworski et al., 2005: 4), which allows for the negotiation of socially and culturally adequate gendered behaviour. As it is a space of negotiation, it is also one of social change. Notions of gender, ambiguity and risk, which are characteristic for this …
Language as apparatus: Entanglements of Language, Culture and Territory and the Invention of Nation and Ethnicity
Postcolonial linguistics has shown that African languages emerged from a complex figuration of missionary, scientific and colonial practices. The article interprets this emergence as the result of an existential onto-epistemological dislocation stabilised through the hegemonic project of colonialism. It rests on an apparatus of modernity that separated nature and culture/society and stabilised this new order with a particular notion of language a…
Popular media for HIV/Aids prevention? Comparing two comics: Kingo and the Sara Communication Initiative
This paper draws attention to some assumptions implicit in HIV/AIDS communication or prevention campaigns which use popular culture media, in this instance comics. Theoretically the analysis is placed in a framework of popular culture as the arena of negotiations about claims over hegemonic discourses. Methodologically the internal logics of a local Swahili comic from the magazine Kingo and of a comic from the Sara Initiative in Swahili (UNICEF-E…
Tusidanganyane – Let’s not fool ourselves! Knowledge production and HIV Prevention in Nairobi (Kenya)
Empirically situated in the Swahili-Sheng speaking context of Nairobi (Kenya) and based on ethnographic conversation analysis, this paper presents a case of knowledge production through a particular verbal routine, i.e. a speaker initiated repair which turns Common Ground into Common Knowledge. With this particular routine young disadvantaged youth strategically make use of their local knowledge producing means to fundamentally and powerfully rej…
Verbale und non-verbale Kleiderkommunikation am Indischen Ozean (Swahili, Ostafrika)
Aesthetics of Communication: Texts on Textiles ( Leso ) from the East African Coast (Swahili)
The leso, 1 a wrap cloth, is an object of everyday use on which proverbial art is visually represented in writing. It serves as a means of equivocal interpersonal communication (see Bavelas et al.), which is achieved by playing on processes of (communicative and semiotic) representation. With this communication the participants have a means to transgress culturally defined boundaries of power and powerlessness. In other words, the cloth lends the…
Swahili. Perceptions of gender in Swahili language and society
1.Introduction 2.Noun classes in Swahili 2.1Swahili noun classification and agreement 2.2Animate nouns 2.3Coordination 2.4Personal nouns 3.Referring to women and men 3.1Lexical and covert gender 3.2Kinship terms and terms of address 3.3Overt gender marking: Attributing ‘female/male’ 3.4Obscene language 4.Gendered speech 4.1 Upole ‘gentleness’: Restrained speech as a cultural ideal on the Swahili coast 4.2Texts on textiles: Equivocal messages 5.Co…
Verbale und non-verbale Kleiderkommunikation am Indischen Ozean (Swahili, Ostafrika)
Texts on textiles: Proverbiality as characteristic of equivocal communication at the East African coast (Swahili)
This article argues that proverbiality may be understood to include more than abstract properties of short, poetically condensed texts. Rather, proverbiality is seen as a characteristic of a specific communicative strategy in which equivocation plays a major role. The proverb itself is perceived as its manifestation. The empirical material on which this hypothesis is based consists of case studies of interpersonal communication by means of the wr…
Popular media for HIV/Aids prevention? Comparing two comics: Kingo and the Sara Communication Initiative
This paper draws attention to some assumptions implicit in HIV/AIDS communication or prevention campaigns which use popular culture media, in this instance comics. Theoretically the analysis is placed in a framework of popular culture as the arena of negotiations about claims over hegemonic discourses. Methodologically the internal logics of a local Swahili comic from the magazine Kingo and of a comic from the Sara Initiative in Swahili (UNICEF-E…
Gender, innovation and ambiguity: Speech prohibitions as a resource for ‘space to move’
This article is based on the observation that in African women’s interactional practices, there is a space ‘between speech and silence’ (Gal, 1991), an ambiguous space between norm and sanction (Jaworski et al., 2005: 4), which allows for the negotiation of socially and culturally adequate gendered behaviour. As it is a space of negotiation, it is also one of social change. Notions of gender, ambiguity and risk, which are characteristic for this …
Urban Languages in Africa
Against the backdrop of current research on the city, urbanity is understood to be a distinct way of life in which (in the spatial, factual and historical dimensions) processes of densification and heterogenization are perceived as acts of sociation. Urbanization is thus understood to include and produce structuration processes autonomously; this also includes autonomous linguistic practices, which are reflected as sediments of everyday knowledge…
Sheng: An urban variety of Swahili in Kenya
Abdilatif Abdalla: Poet in Politics
Tusidanganyane – Let’s not fool ourselves! Knowledge production and HIV Prevention in Nairobi (Kenya)
Empirically situated in the Swahili-Sheng speaking context of Nairobi (Kenya) and based on ethnographic conversation analysis, this paper presents a case of knowledge production through a particular verbal routine, i.e. a speaker initiated repair which turns Common Ground into Common Knowledge. With this particular routine young disadvantaged youth strategically make use of their local knowledge producing means to fundamentally and powerfully rej…
A frica, Language Research in
Most research on languages in Africa in one way or another reflects the continent's tremendous linguistic diversity. That languages have become such an important marker of difference, identity, and inequality is a result of the protracted colonial encounter and the definition of powerful linguistic ideologies. Intellectual developments in Europe produced a notion of language that essentialized it as inextricably bound up with ethnicity and territ…
Language as apparatus: Entanglements of Language, Culture and Territory and the Invention of Nation and Ethnicity
Postcolonial linguistics has shown that African languages emerged from a complex figuration of missionary, scientific and colonial practices. The article interprets this emergence as the result of an existential onto-epistemological dislocation stabilised through the hegemonic project of colonialism. It rests on an apparatus of modernity that separated nature and culture/society and stabilised this new order with a particular notion of language a…
Linguistics (9 works) · Political science (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Swahili (8 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Multilingual Education and Policy (5 works) · African history and culture studies (4 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works)