Department of African languages and cultures (ceased 1-1-2013)
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Pots, words and the Bantu problem: on lexical reconstruction and early African history
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Bantu plant names as indicators of linguistic stratigraphy in the Western Province of Zambia
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Un recueil de proverbes nsong (RD Congo, bantu B85d).
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A Runyankore vocabulary
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Multilingualism and exclusion : policy, practice and prospects
Pol Cuvelier, Theodorus du Plessis, Michael Meeuwis (UGent) and Lut Teck(2007) -
Pearl millet in early Bantu speech communities in Central Africa: a reconsideration of the lexical evidence
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A comparative linguistic approach to the history of iron-working among Savannah Bantu speech communities: a critical appraisal of Klein-Arendt (2004)
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Narrative, interaction, or both
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On scope and depth in linguistic ethnography
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Towards an ecology of world languages
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Automatic diacritic restoration for resource-scarce languages
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Africa's media: democracy and the politics of belonging
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- Miscellaneous
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Phonetics of EFL dictionary definitions
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The semantics of SM-R-a in Lingala: Methodological problems, data and tentative analysis
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Data-driven part-of-speech tagging of Kiswahili
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Compiling modern bilingual dictionaries for Bantu languages: case studies for Northern Sotho and Zulu
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The users and uses of TshwaneLex one
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DWS 2006: Proceedings of the fourth international workshop on dictionary writing systems, Tuesday 5th September 2006, Turin, Italy (Pre-EURALEX 2006)
Gilles-Maurice de Schryver (UGent)(2006) -
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AFRILEX 2006: the user perspective in lexicography, programme & abstracts
Gilles-Maurice de Schryver (UGent)(2006) -
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Do dictionary users really look up frequent words? On the overestimation of the value of corpus-based lexicography
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Internationalisation, localisation and customisation aspects of the dictionary application TshwaneLex
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The Lingála-Kiswahili border in north-eastern Congo: its origins in Belgian colonial state formation of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries
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Grammaire ngbaka (2ième partie): Morphosyntaxe verbale
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Ganda
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When multilingualism means fewer rights: Protests by Congolese intellectuals against the bilingualization of the Belgian Congo in 1950s
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Grammaire ngbaka (1ière partie): Phonologie et tonologie, morphosyntaxe non-verbale
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On being declared illiterate: language-ideological disqualification in Dutch classes for immigrants in Belgium
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How legitimate is my voice? Rejoinder
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Narrative inequality in the TRC: on the hearability of hidden transcripts
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Ethnopoetics as functional reconstruction: Dell Hymes’ narrative view of the world. Review article
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Email fraud: language, technology, and the indexicals of globalisation.
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Language ideology
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From fieldnotes to Grammar: Artefactual ideologies and the textual production of languages in Africa
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Veldslag tegen de daklozen: de nieuwe hedendaagse klassenstrijd?
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Oh, ik ga schrik hebben: Attituden tegenover asielzoekers
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Playing with language in a media-promoted standardisation context: Public broadcasting and adolescent linguistic practices in Flanders.
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Complémentarité syntactico-énonciative entre morphèmes et intonèmes. Le cas du berbère
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La spirantisation dynamique de la vélaire occlusive simple /k/ dans les variétés berbères du Rif
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La vocalisation des alvéolaires /r/ et /rr/ dans les variétés berbères du Rif
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Pratiques et représentations linguistiques en contexte multilingue: le cas des Berbares en Belgique
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The theatre of violence: narratives of protagonists in the South African conflict
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Managing Reconciliation at the human rights violations hearings of the South African TRC
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The debate on truth and reconciliation: a survey of literature on the South African truth and reconciliation commission
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Inventaris van de wetenschappelijke expertise in België met betrekking tot Midden-Afrika
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Blowing bubbles in the city or does urban governance have a bad breath?
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Yembe nde la Lososo: shimo y'Atetela = La tourterelle et le passereau: récit otetela (Tshumbe, Sankuru, Kasaï Oriental)
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Kyonge y’eteketa lo Kisongye, l’otetela la lo français = Lexique kisongye - otetela - français: lexicostatistique (Lubefu, Tshumbe)
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Evudu l'aseka nyama: shimo y'Atetela = La tortue et les animaux: récit otetela (Tshumbe, Sankuru, Kasaï Oriental)
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Kyonge y’eteketa lo Ciluba, l’Otetela la lo Français = Lexique ciluba, otetela, français: lexicostatistique (Kananga, Tshumbe)
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Dialectometry Analysis of Berber Lexis
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Physical Dualism
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Physical meanings in sensory magic
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Ryangombe: Spirit initiation and subversion in Tanzania
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'Stalking the stalker': a Chwezi initiation into spirit possession and experiential structure
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Bibliography of pragmatics
F Brisard, Michael Meeuwis (UGent) and J. Verschueren(2006) -
Negotiating agency while describing the 'facts' in a case of libel and resisting authorities
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Variation géolinguistique et standardisation des variétés berbères du Rif
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Atlas linguistique des variétés berbères du Rif (Maroc du Nord). Analyses géolinguistiques et comparatives
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What comparative Bantu pottery vocabulary may tell us about early human settlement in the Inner Congo Basin.
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Variation géolinguistique et classification dialectométrique des parlers berbères du Rif
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Applied ethnopoetics
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Locative trigrams in Northern Sotho, preceded by analyses of formative bigrams
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Zuid-Afrika in Afrika: dominante overheerser of positieve stimulans op de weg naar continentale ontwikkeling?
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Ujamaa and the creation of the new Waswahili
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From TshwaneLex to TshwanePedia: creating and flexibly maintaining online encyclopaedias
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Bibliography of Pragmatics: 2nd Release, updated and expanded
F BRISARD, Michael Meeuwis (UGent) and J VERSCHUEREN(2005) -
Akko w'Atetela la weoho wakiwo = Enigmes otetela et leurs espèces (Tshumbe, Sankuru, Kasaï Oriental)
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Kyonge y'eteketa lo Londengese, l'Otetela la lo Français = Lexique londengese, otetela, français: lexicostatistique: Dekese, Tshumbe (Lubefu)
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Shimo ya Mboloko nde la waadyende Mama Okongo: shimo y'Atetela = Le récit de Mboloko et de sa feme Mama Okongo: récit otetela (Tshumbe, Sankuru, Kasaï Oriental)
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Polycentricity and interactional regimes in "global neighbourhoods"
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Het activisme van de verminking - L'activisme de la mutilation
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Borders and boundaries of globalisation: north-western Congo in times of militarisation and extreme transition
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Language policy and national identity
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Des mots et des pots en bantou
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Studies in African Comparative Linguistics with special focus on Bantu and Mande
Koen Bostoen (UGent) and J MANIACKY(2005) -
Comparative Notes on Bantu Agent Noun Spirantisation
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Focus on Cameroon. A fieldworker's tool for deciphering the stories Cameroonian languages have to tell", by Ngessimo M. Mutaka & Sammy B. Chumbow (2001). Koeln: Ruediger Koeppe Verlag
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One database, many dictionaries - varying co(n)text with the dictionary application TshwaneLex
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Representing and describing words flexibly with the dictionary application TshwaneLex
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Dynamic Metalanguage Customisation with the Dictionary Application TshwaneLex
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From TshwaneLex to TshwaneTerm: tailoring terminology management for South Africa
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Discourse
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Leopolds Congo: dromen en nachtmerries
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Managing eleven parallel corpora and the extraction of data in all official South African languages
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Taalkundige cartografie in de kolonie: Twee taalkaarten uit 1948
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Cartographie linguistique dans la colonie : deux cartes linguistiques de 1948
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Grenzen aan de solidariteit: formele en informele patronen van solidariteit in het domein van migratie, huisvesting en veiligheid
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Vlaams wetenschappelijk onderzoek en science sharing
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Peripheral normativity: literacy and the production of locality in a South African township school
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Daklozen, post-fordistische solidariteit en disciplinerende stedelijkheid
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In and out of class, codes, and control: Globalisation, discourse and mobility
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Media representations of the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission and their commitment to reconciliation
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Het suggereren van verzoening tijdens de hoorzittingen van de Waarheids- en Verzoeningscommissie.
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De Zuid-Afrikaanse Waarheids- en Verzoeningscommissie als model voor conflictverzoening.
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Overcoming apartheid: can truth reconcile a divided nation?
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Overcoming Apartheid. Can Truth Reconcile a Divided Nation?, by James L. Gibson
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A policeman’s word: The entextualization of TRC debates in amnesty applicant narratives
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Topicalizations of culture in Belgian courtrooms
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Concepts and tools for lexicography in the electronic age : a case study of dictionary compilation in South Africa
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Sensory codes in Sukuma divination
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From Mzee to Dingi: The emancipatory potential of ‘generation’ in Tanzania
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The speed of darkness: Intragaze x Terrorvision
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This is not a haircut: neo-liberalism and revolt in Kiswahili rap
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Immunising strategies: hip hop and critique in Tanzania
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Reconciliation : the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commisson : deconstruction of a multilayered archive
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Les inaccomplis du Tarifit
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Aspects de la morphologie verbale dans les variétés berbères du Rif
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A diachronic onomasiological approach to early Bantu oil palm vocabulary
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Bourdieu the ethnographer - The ethnographic grounding of habitus and voice
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Situating language rights: English and Swahili in Tanzania revisited
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'Our Baka brothers obviously do not speak French': Siting and scaling physical/discursive 'movements' in post-colonial Belgium
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Space of multilingualism
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Lexicography: Critical concepts
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Concurrent over- and under-treatment. A short reply
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Nexus analysis: Discourse and the emerging internet
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Lexicography and Natural Language Processing. A Festschrift in Honour of B.T.S. Atkins
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Apartheid in South Africa and the United States?
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Concurrent over- and under-treatment in dictionaries - The 'Woordeboek van die Afrikaanse Taal' as a case in point
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Linguistic diversity, norms, and the media in Flanders
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A contrastive analysis of English & Lingala verb paradigms: Present-time reference and general validity
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The lexicographic treatment of the demonstrative copulative in Sesotho sa Leboa: an exercise in multiple cross-referencing
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TshwaneLex: a state-of-the-art dictionary compilation program
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On how electronic dictionaries are really used
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Friends will be friends: true or false: lexicographic approaches to the treatment of false friends
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A Corpus-based Investigation of the Zulu Nominal Suffix -kazi: A preliminary study
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25 ans d'Aequatoria, 25 ans des Annales Aequatoria
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Onto la nkoi: shimo y'Atetela = L'homme et le léopard: récit otetela (Tshumbe, Sankuru, Kasaï Oriental)
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Spellcheckers for the South African languages, Part 1: The status quo and options for improvement
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Spellcheckers for the South African languages, Part 2: The utilisation of clusters of circumfixes
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The Vocabulary of Pottery Fashioning Techniques in Great Lakes Bantu: a Comparative Onomasiological Study
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Linguistics for the use of African history and the comparative study of Bantu Pottery vocabulary
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Osculance among Reconstructed Bantu Proto-forms: the Example of “°-kádang-/°-káng- (fry, roast)
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Kyonge y'eteketa lo Losindanga, l'Oteleta la lo Français = Lexique losindanga - otetela - français: lexicostatistique, Kolomonyi (Kole), Tshumbe (Lubefu)
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Texte et lexique lonkucu, Iwaji (Kole), Kasaï Oriental, carte.
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Workshopping
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Van Balen tot Onthalen
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Grassroots historiography and the problem of voice: Tshibumba's 'histoire du Zaire'
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Rights in places
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Translating technical texts into Zulu with the aid of multilingual and/or parallel corpora
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Pour une Flandre radicalement antiraciste
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Pour en finir le mystère du Vlaams Blok
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Joseph Tanghe et le lingala
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'Out of the race': the poesis of genocide in mass media discourses in Côte d'Ivoire
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The many publics of the Bedu masquerade: Nafana male and female masks
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Re-generating the nation: Youth, revolution and the politics of history in Côte d'Ivoire
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The Kavango peoples in the past: local historiographies from Northern Namibia
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Bibliography of Pragmatics: 1997-2001
F Brisard, Michael Meeuwis (UGent) and J Verschueren(2004) -
Seduction, community, speech: a Festschrift for Herman Parret
F BRISARD, Michael Meeuwis (UGent) and Bart Vandenabeele (UGent)(2004) -
Populisme
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Rapport à la Fondation Roi Baudoin relatif aux centres ouverts fédéraux
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Review of "Refiguring the Archive, edited by Carolyn Hamilton et al.
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Review of "Transnationalism and New African Immigration to South Africa", edited by Jonathan Crush and David A. McDonald.
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Review of 'The Provocations of Amnesty: Memory, Justice and Impunity', edited by Charles Villa-Vicencio & Erik Doxtader
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Introduction: signs of the times
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Interculturele communicatie in rechtbanken
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From mimicry to synchrony, or how to gain disjunctive capacity without going bananas
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In search of the real: the healing contingency of Sukuma divination
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New Dimensions of Orality on African Websites
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De la variation orale à l'uniformisation écrite en berbère
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Writing as a problem: African grassroots writing, economies of literacy, and globalization
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Comment on Michael Silverstein, “Cultural concepts and the language-culture nexus”
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Guidelines for the use of language analysis in relation to questions of national origin in refugee cases
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A practical guide to lexicography
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The South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission and the Belgian Lumumba Commission: A comparison
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Bauman & Briggs (2003) ‘Voices of Modernity’
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Refiguring the archive
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Het Vlaams Blok als mysterie : wetenschappelijke en politieke uitwegen
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Migratie, gender en rechtvaardigheid : een moraalwetenschappelijke studie
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Les langues africaines sur la Toile: étude des cas haoussa, somali, lingala et isixhosa [The African Languages on the Internet: Case studies for Hausa, Somali, Lingala and isiXhosa]
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Towards Strategies for Translating Terminology into all South African Languages: A Corpus-based Approach
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Introducing TshwaneLex - A New Computer Program for the Compilation of Dictionaries
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Towards Second-Generation Spellcheckers for the South African Languages
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Drawing up the macrostructure of a Nguni dictionary, with special reference to isiNdebele
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Introduction l'intonation du cilub
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Ethnographies of Hegemony: an Introduction
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Woho wateketawo nkombo y'anto lo lokombe lak' Atetela = Langage tambouriné otetela: noms de personnes (b), Tshumbe (Lubefu)
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Woho wateketawo nkombo y'ewanji lo lokombe lak' Atetela = Langage tambouriné otetela: noms de chefs (Tshumbe, Sankuru)
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Orthopraxy, writing and identity: shaping lives through borrowed genres in Congo
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Space, experience and authority: exploring attitudes towards refugee centers in Belgium
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The tree
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War, witches and traitors: cases from the MPLA's Eastern Front in Angola (1966-1975)
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Review of "Truth and Reconciliation. The Confessional Mode in South African Literature", by Suzan VanZanten Gallagher
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Review of "Commissioning the Past. Understanding South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission, by Deborah Posel & Graeme Simpson (eds.), and "Truth and Reconciliation in South Africa: Miracle or Model?", by Lyn S. Graybill
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Review of "Truth and Reconciliation in South Africa: Miracle or Model?", by Lyn S. Graybill.
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Review of ""The Fall of Apartheid: The Inside Story from Smuts to Mbeki"", by Robert Harvey
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De Lumumba commissie en de Zuid-Afrikaanse waarheids- en verzoeningscommissie: een vergelijking
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TAMA 2003 South Africa: CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS
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Effektiewe vordering met die Woordeboek van die Afrikaanse Taal soos gemeet in terme van 'n multidimensionele Liniaal [Effective Progress with the Woordeboek van die Afrikaanse Taal as Measured in Terms of a Multidimensional Ruler]
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Online dictionaries on the internet: an overview for the African languages
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Computational features of the dictionary application 'TshwaneLex'
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Non-word error detection in current South African spellcheckers
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Compiling a lemma-sign list for a specific target user group: The Junior Dictionary as a case in point
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Contribution à l'histoire du lingala: L'Essai sur la langue congolaise d'Emeri Cambier (1891), Situation historique et texte intégral
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Compte rendu de 'The Bantu languages' edited by Derek Nurse & Gérard Philippson (2003, London: Routledge)
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Multiculturele buurten en nieuwe migranten
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Ruimte als attitudeveranderend of attitudebehoudend element ten opzichte van asielzoekers
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Orthopraxy, writing and identity: Shaping lives through borrowed genres in Congo
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El arte de contar cuentos en el Rif
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Review of "Crime and Policing in Post-Apartheid South Africa. Transforming under Fire".
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Review: Some spirits heal, others only dance
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Making a journey in a Dar es Salaam minibus: An interactional analysis
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How to get from point A to point B in a Dar es Salaam minibus?
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Lexicographers' dreams in the electronic-dictionary age
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Commentary: A sociolinguistics of globalization
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Women in African colonial histories
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From anti-apartheid to African Renaissance: interviews with South African writers and critics on cultural politics beyond the cultural struggle
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Governance, politics, and policy in South Africa
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Bearing witness: Women and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in South Africa
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Parole et savoir-faire populaires: conversations propos de la poterie des Twa au Burundi
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AFRILEX 2003, bilingual dictionaries, programme & abstracts
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Maintaining and challenging order: The discourse of procedure management at the TRC hearings
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Language access, language choice and whose linguistic rights in a colonial context: The Belgian Commission of African Linguistics
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Grenzen en ontgrenzing van globalisering: Noord-west Congo in tijden van militarisering en extreme transitie
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The use of slashes as a lexicographic device, with special reference to the African languages
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Reversing an African-language lexicon: the Northern Sotho Terminology and Orthography No. 4 as a case in point
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Woho wateketawo enya, alangi, ntaci, tokanyi l'akombo ankina lo lokombe lak'Atetela = Langage tambouriné otetela: temps, couleurs, maladies, abstraits, etc. (Tshumbe, Sankuru)
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Okondo la mbekelo y'Akucu Membele woho wakafunde Kitete Cosmas = Histoires et coutumes des Ankucu Membele selon Kitete Cosmas (Tshumbe, Sankuru), IV
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Kyonge y'eteketa lo kigenya, lo kilega, l'otetela la lo français = Lexique kigenya, kilega, otetela, français: lexicostatistique (Kindu, Tshumbe)
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Begrip als vooroordeel: de constructie van 'klassieke gevallen' in interculturele hulpverlening
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Pidginization at work : Bobangi's pidginization into Lingala as documented in historical records
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Handbook of pragmatics 2002.
J VERSCHUEREN, J ÖSTMAN, Jan Blommaert (UGent) and Chris Bulcaen (UGent)(2002) -
African literature and globalization: semiotizing space in a Tanzanian novel
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Contes berbères Chaouis de l'Aurès
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L’intonation et ses fonctions syntaxiques en rifain
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Le rifain et son orthographe: entre variation et uniformisation
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Framing gender: Multiple gendered identities in Dar es Salaam adolescents’ talk
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Ageing in Africa: sociolinguistic and anthropological approaches
Sinfree Makoni and Koenraad Stroeken (UGent)(2002) -
African gerontology: critical models, future directions
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From shrub to log: the ancestral dimension of elderhood among Sukuma in Tanzania
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Towards transdisciplinary studies on ageing in Africa
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Why 'the world' loves watching football (and 'the Americans' don't)
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Review: Steven Lihonama Lutumo, Leben und Arbeit eines traditionellen Heilers der Bena Südwest-Tansanias
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Texte et lexique Indanga (Kolomonyi, Kole, Kasai Oriental).
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Review: Marie-Bénédicte Dembour 'Recalling the Belgian Congo: conversations and introspections'.
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Review: Olivier Barlet 'African Cinemas: Decolonizing the Gaze'.
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Ivoorkust en de internationale gemeenschap (2000-2001): Een kritiek van de inmenging.
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Het drama van een journalist-historicus
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De politieke bezetting van ruimte
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Planting seeds, making cheese, moulding faces, feeding children ... men making babies? The virgin-birth controversy revisited
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The Zulu locative prefix ku- revisited: a corpus-based approach
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Towards a Sound Lemmatisation Strategy for the Bantu Verb through the Use of Frequency-based Tail Slots - with special reference to Cilubà, Sepedi and Kiswahili.
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Angst en racisme: een onderzoek naar de inplanting van het asielcentrum in Alsemberg (Beersel)
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Contes vivants d'Afrique /
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Pretextuality and pretextual gaps: on re/defining linguistic inequality
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Flemish nationalism in the Belgian Congo versus Zairian anti-imperialism: continuity and discontinuity in language ideological debates.
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The sociolinguistics of Lingala as a diaspora lingua franca: Historical and language ideological aspects.
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Loan words versus indigenous words in Northern Sotho: a lexicographic perspective
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Taking Dictionaries for Bantu Languages into the New Millennium - with special reference to Kiswahili, Sepedi and isiZulu.
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Semi-automatic term extraction for the African languages, with special reference to Northern Sotho
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International Communication Monitoring.
J VERSCHUEREN, J OSTMAN and Michael Meeuwis (UGent)(2002)