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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Perry Gilmore (University of Arizona, USA)Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd Imprint: Wiley-Blackwell Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.00cm , Length: 23.00cm Weight: 0.259kg ISBN: 9781119101574ISBN 10: 1119101573 Pages: 192 Publication Date: 09 October 2015 Audience: College/higher education , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly , Undergraduate Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Out of stock  The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available. Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Map xiii Prologue xv 1 Uweryumachini!: A Language Discovered 1 2 Herodotus Revisited: Language Origins, Forbidden Experiments, New Languages, and Pidgins 17 3 Lorca's Miracle: Play, Performance, Verbal Art, and Creativity 35 4 Kekopey Life: Transcending Linguistic Hegemonic Borders and Racialized Postcolonial Spaces 58 5 Kisisi: Language Form, Development, and Change 93 Epilogue 132 In Memoriam 137 Notes 138 References 146 Index 157ReviewsKisisi braids brilliant linguistic analysis with compelling critical ethnography. A gifted storyteller, Gilmore offers stunning scholarship contesting child language theories and reflecting on the dynamics of stark structural Kenya colonialism. Michelle Fine, Distinguished Professor of Critical Psychology, The Graduate Center, CUNY A story, lovingly told, of two boys' exceptional friendship in a colonial setting. A remarkable example of linguistic practice as emergent in, and inseparable from, the relationships and activities it serves. Penelope Eckert, Professor of Linguistics, Stanford University A thoroughly unique and artfully crafted documentation of children's creativity at work in inventing a new pidgin language and agency in resisting prevailing language ideologies. Marjorie Harness Goodwin, Professor of Anthropology, UCLA Kisisi (Our Language) is a unique and invaluable account of how two five-year-old boys--one Kenyan, one American--created a spontaneous pidgin. Incisive and poetic, it's part linguistic analysis, part gripping story of culture contact, part deeply moving memorial to a life tragically cut short. This book will fascinate and move anyone interested in language, children, or human experience. Deborah Tannen, University Professor, Georgetown University Author InformationPerry Gilmore, a sociolinguist and educational anthropologist, is Professor of Language, Reading and Culture at the University of Arizona, USA. She is also Professor Emerita, and Affiliate Faculty at the Alaska Native Language Center, at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. Gilmore is the author of numerous ethnographic studies and co-editor of major ethnography collections including, Children In and Out of School: Ethnography and Education (1982) and The Acquisition of Literacy: Ethnographic Perspectives (1986). Gilmore is the past President of the Council on Anthropology and Education, a major section of the American Anthropology Association. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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