4 Linguistics and Nigerian Language Studies In Nigeria: Building Bridges for a More Viable and Hospitable Linguistics

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Tables and Figures xi
4. Contributors xiii
5. Acknowledgements xix
6. Foreword xxi
7. 1 Introduction 1
8. Part 1 Language as a Gift
9. 2 Sunset at a Place Visited for No Ordinary Reason 31
10. 3 The Decline of Hospitality and the Rise of Linguistic Imperialism 47
11. 4 Linguistics and Nigerian Language Studies In Nigeria: Building Bridges for a More Viable and Hospitable Linguistics 56
12. 5 The Trans-Atlantic Shipment of Romanies (‘Gypsies’) to the Americas: Discursive Silencing, Erasure and Inhospitableness 71
13. 6 (Not) Speaking to a German Africanist in Namibia in 1954: On Refusal and Hospitality as Responses to Linguistic Research 90
14. 7 The Pew Inscriptions at First African Baptist Church in Savannah, Georgia 123
15. Part 2 Language and Sharing
16. 8 The Art and Role of Listening and Verbal Gestures1 in Tobagonian: Returning to the Oral/Aural 135
17. 9 Dagaaba Travel Experience Names 146
18. 10 La carta que te escribo sobre festivales de cine y hospitalidad 157
19. 11 ‘Paradise’, ‘Hospitality’ and the Transformative Power of Environmental Music: When the Island Sings 167
20. 12 Pluri-living in the ‘In’ Hospitable Deep South of the US 173
21. Part 3 Language, Resisting and Undoing Enclosures
22. 13 Shetland Stories in Knitting 179
23. 14 The Fieldworker as a Human Being 185
24. 15 Résistance et Hospitalité 195
25. 16 Pastiche: A Conversation Between Kenyan Sheng and South African Tsotsitaal Youth Language Speakers 221
26. 17 Women: The Hospitable ‘Race’ Who Were ‘Already There’ 230
27. 18 On Strike on Mother Language Day: Critical Reflections, Toilet Signs and Language Geneaologies 246
28. Part 4 Language and Reassuming Sovereignty
29. 19 Narratives of Reciprocity and Envy in a Digo Community in Tiwi, Kenya 255
30. 20 Auður the Deep Minded 269
31. 21 Childhood Memories and the Call to Being Hospitable in the Bar’chu, the Bell and the Bilal 278
32. 22 Giving Voice to the Victims of the Orkney Witchcraft Trials: ‘Answered, She Spoke it for Weakness of Her Owne Flesh, and for Feare of Her Lyfe’ 306
33. 23 A World Glasgow Minding on the International Day of Peace 313
34. Afterword: Hospitable Linguistics – Thoughts on Current Directions 316
35. Index 325