New book edited by Beata Wójtowicz and Iwona Kraska-Szlenk published!

07 11 2023

We encourage you to download for free (!) and read the new book edited by prof. Beata Wójtowicz and prof. Iwona Kraska-Szlenk, titled “Language, Culture, Literature Intertwined. The Swahili Perspective”.

You can download the book here.

Description:

Swahili is recognized as an important international language and ranks first among African languages taught to foreigners. This publication presents Swahili in its cultural setting by discussing selected issues pertaining to social values reflected in language usage and literary tradition, as well as issues of modern terminology and pragmatics. All contributions contain original and novel proposals, showing that the interdependence between language and culture can take many forms and can be analyzed from various perspectives.

Keywords: Swahili language, Swahili culture, Swahili literature, Swahili lexicopgraphy, Swahili proverbs.

Table of contents:

Rosanna Tramutoli Cultural metaphors of emotions in Swahili
and Zulu: language, body and healing practices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Iwona Kraska-Szlenk Swahili proverbs from a cultural and
cognitive perspective . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Izabela Romańczuk Feminist discourses on utu and heshima in
selected works by Tanzanian women writers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Thomas J. Hinnebusch Capturing the lexical richness of Swahili
poetry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
Beata Wójtowicz Kirusi or virusi? Corpus-based research on
COVID-19-related terminology in Swahili . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
Magreth J. Kibiki Pragmatic marker tu as a source of
implicature in Kiswahili . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
Leonard Muaka The complexities of noun class system in the
acquisition and learning of Swahili language . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137