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Yoruba Proscriptive and Prescriptive Proverbs

Inbunden, Engelska, 1987

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This collection of Yoruba proverbs is the most complete and authoritative study that has ever been made available to the reading public and the scholarly community. It is written in standard modern Yoruba orthography, offering both the contracted and uncontracted forms of the entries, with fastidious attention to tonal language.

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Utgivningsdatum:1987-12-18
Mått:152 x 229 x 25 mm
Vikt:454 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:398
Förlag:University Press of America
ISBN:9780819165022

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Oyekan Owomoyela is a Professor of English at the University of Nebraska in Lincoln, Nebraska.

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This work is the first of its kind and will be very useful to the general public and scholarly community...recommended to most libraries and to scholars and students of African languages and linguistics. American Reference Books Annual This new collection is the best to appear so far, both in terms of its scope and in terms of the clarity and thoroughness with which the meanings and applications of the proverbs are explained...There is no doubt...that the author has done an excellent job and that this collection will prove a valuable source for scholars of Yoruba oral literature and culture. Research in African Literatures This new collection is the best to appear so far, both in terms of its scope and in terms of the clarity and thoroughness with which the meanings and applications of the proverbs are explained...There is no doubt...that the author has done an excellent job and that this collection will prove a valuable source for scholars of Yoruba oral literature and culture. Research in African Literatures This work is the first of its kind and will be very useful to the general public and scholarly community...recommended to most libraries and to scholars and students of African languages and linguistics. American Reference Books Annual