Greeting and saying farewell in two Bantu languages: Swahili and Zulu

The article discusses greetings and farewells of a typical conversation in two Bantu languages: Swahili and Zulu. The conversation usually comprises the greeting followed by the enquiry about each other’s well-being, the actual conversation, and then the parting farewell. The article outlines the im...

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Autores principales:	Beata Wójtowicz, Lionel Posthumus
Formato:	article
Lenguaje:	DE EN FR
Publicado:	Warsaw University Press 2021
Materias:	greetings, farewells, salutations, swahili, zulu, bantu languages, african languages Ethnology. Social and cultural anthropology GN301-674 Philology. Linguistics P1-1091 African languages and literature PL8000-8844
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:b14839b6c25d48388bcde3aafd9125c22021-11-29T17:56:35ZGreeting and saying farewell in two Bantu languages: Swahili and Zulu2545-21342657-4187https://doaj.org/article/b14839b6c25d48388bcde3aafd9125c22021-11-01T00:00:00Zhttps://salc.uw.edu.pl/index.php/SALC/article/view/290https://doaj.org/toc/2545-2134https://doaj.org/toc/2657-4187The article discusses greetings and farewells of a typical conversation in two Bantu languages: Swahili and Zulu. The conversation usually comprises the greeting followed by the enquiry about each other’s well-being, the actual conversation, and then the parting farewell. The article outlines the importance of nonverbal, sociolinguistic, and situational factors of the salutation. The objectives of the paper are to explore the feasibility of considering the salutation in Bantu languages as being uniform, to determine some common trends in the salutation, and to discuss the aspects that may have an impact on the form of the salutation, in languages in general and in Swahili and Zulu in particular.Beata WójtowiczLionel PosthumusWarsaw University Pressarticlegreetings, farewells, salutations, swahili, zulu, bantu languages, african languagesEthnology. Social and cultural anthropologyGN301-674Philology. LinguisticsP1-1091African languages and literaturePL8000-8844DEENFRStudies in African Languages and Cultures, Vol 0, Iss 55, Pp 9-29 (2021)
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topic	greetings, farewells, salutations, swahili, zulu, bantu languages, african languages Ethnology. Social and cultural anthropology GN301-674 Philology. Linguistics P1-1091 African languages and literature PL8000-8844
spellingShingle	greetings, farewells, salutations, swahili, zulu, bantu languages, african languages Ethnology. Social and cultural anthropology GN301-674 Philology. Linguistics P1-1091 African languages and literature PL8000-8844 Beata Wójtowicz Lionel Posthumus Greeting and saying farewell in two Bantu languages: Swahili and Zulu
description	The article discusses greetings and farewells of a typical conversation in two Bantu languages: Swahili and Zulu. The conversation usually comprises the greeting followed by the enquiry about each other’s well-being, the actual conversation, and then the parting farewell. The article outlines the importance of nonverbal, sociolinguistic, and situational factors of the salutation. The objectives of the paper are to explore the feasibility of considering the salutation in Bantu languages as being uniform, to determine some common trends in the salutation, and to discuss the aspects that may have an impact on the form of the salutation, in languages in general and in Swahili and Zulu in particular.
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title	Greeting and saying farewell in two Bantu languages: Swahili and Zulu
title_short	Greeting and saying farewell in two Bantu languages: Swahili and Zulu
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Greeting and saying farewell in two Bantu languages: Swahili and Zulu

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