Izabela Will
Biographic Data
| ID | 8890710 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Izabela Will |
| GIVEN NAMES | Izabela |
| FAMILY NAME | Will |
| SIGNATURE | WILL I |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Warsaw |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2797-1160 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The Image of Water among the Hausa through the Lens of Selected Containers
The paper focuses on cultural categorization of water in Hausa based on names of three water containers: a bottle, a sachet, and a container called buta. The main part of the paper concerns the analysis of collocations, metaphors, and fixed phrases, indicating the association of three types of water with certain events, activities, and domains of social life such as religious practices, celebrations, hygiene, eating meals, or hosting guests. In c…
Structural, socio-pragmatic, and cultural aspects of teaching African languages in Poland
The 60th anniversary of the African Studies program was celebrated at the University of Warsaw in the academic year 2022/23. This is equivalent to 60 years of experience in teaching African languages to Polish students. Since every anniversary encourages reflection, we take this opportunity to summarize the challenges we faced in this endeavour. Teaching foreign languages is not only about presenting new words and structures; it is even more abou…
From cleaning to totality – the semantic core of the “dusting off palms” gesture among the Hausa of Northern Nigeria
The paper shows a close relationship between speech and gestures by arguing that in oral utterances the verbal part is one of the components of the message, while the other is embedded in gesture. The analysis is based on a few hours of recordings containing natural discourse, mainly sermons preached by Hausa sheiks and religious leaders from Northern Nigeria. The focus is put on the use of a recurrent gesture referred to as the “dusting off palm…
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From cleaning to totality – the semantic core of the “dusting off palms” gesture among the Hausa of Northern Nigeria
The paper shows a close relationship between speech and gestures by arguing that in oral utterances the verbal part is one of the components of the message, while the other is embedded in gesture. The analysis is based on a few hours of recordings containing natural discourse, mainly sermons preached by Hausa sheiks and religious leaders from Northern Nigeria. The focus is put on the use of a recurrent gesture referred to as the “dusting off palm…
The Image of Water among the Hausa through the Lens of Selected Containers
The paper focuses on cultural categorization of water in Hausa based on names of three water containers: a bottle, a sachet, and a container called buta. The main part of the paper concerns the analysis of collocations, metaphors, and fixed phrases, indicating the association of three types of water with certain events, activities, and domains of social life such as religious practices, celebrations, hygiene, eating meals, or hosting guests. In c…
Structural, socio-pragmatic, and cultural aspects of teaching African languages in Poland
The 60th anniversary of the African Studies program was celebrated at the University of Warsaw in the academic year 2022/23. This is equivalent to 60 years of experience in teaching African languages to Polish students. Since every anniversary encourages reflection, we take this opportunity to summarize the challenges we faced in this endeavour. Teaching foreign languages is not only about presenting new words and structures; it is even more abou…
Linguistics (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Hausa (2 works) · Physics (2 works) · African history and culture analysis (1 work) · African history and culture studies (1 work) · Artificial Intelligence (1 work) · Computer vision (1 work) · Geography (1 work)