The Routledge Handbook of African Linguistics

The Handbook of African Linguistics provides a holistic coverage of the key themes, subfields, approaches and practical application to the vast areas subsumable under African linguistics, that will serve researchers working across the wide continuum in the field.

Established and emerging scholars of African languages who are active and current in their fields are brought together, each making use of data from a linguistic group in Africa to explicate a chosen theme within their area of expertise, and illustrate the practice of the discipline in the continent.

Augustine Agwuele is an interdisciplinary scholar. He integrates the conceptual rigors of theoretical linguistics with ethnographically grounded scholarship in socio-cultural anthropology, language and culture, and studies of peoples and cultures of Africa to address common and habitual practices pertaining to speech production and perception and involved in encoding, transmitting, and decoding messages.

Adams Bodomo is professor of African Studies (African Languages and Literatures) at the University of Vienna He specializes in formal theoretical linguistics, cross-cultural communication, digital humanities (languages and literatures in new media), Computer-Mediated Communication for Linguistics and Literacy: Technology and Natural Language Education, and international studies involving Africa and Asia.