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tradizione orale, lingua scritta e storia: quale rapporto?

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Caccia al tesoro per gli studenti dell'ultimo anno di un Istituto Superiore

Autori: tom e jerry     

E-mail:   tom e jerry@

Ambito: etno-antropologico

Livello: Scuola secondaria di secondo grado


DOMANDE samburu girl           What is a proto-language?

Do you know the meaning of  philogenesis?

Which is the relationship between  phylogenetic unit and language?

Can you identify a current distribution of human language families?

Can you draw a map showing the distribution of African language families?

Who do you think  tried to put African spoken languages in a written form and why?

The creation of written  words mainly depended on the interpretation and impression that the ears of  foreign listeners had:  do you think  this element may have influenced the construction of written languages?

What constitutes African literature?

Does African literature have to be written in African languages?

Some  people say that any literature written in non-African  languages  is not African literature. What do you think about this "problem"?

Was it possible to construct a credible history out of  oral tradition turned into written language?

What do African scholars  say about  African oral tradition and history?

After reading carefully the following African sayings, discuss of truth and how we may determine it inside t oral tradition.

  • A stranger in town / Walks over hallowed graves (Nembe).
  •  One ignorant of his origin / Is nondo (nonhuman) (Nembe).
  • The fly who has no adviser / Will follow the corpse into the grave (Ikwerre)
RISORSE

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Per la domanda numero 1, naviga questi siti:

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Se vuoi trovare informazioni sull'origine e lo sviluppo delle nostre lingue vai a:


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_families_and_languages

http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/clad/clad4.html




Se vuoi  approfondire le tue conoscenze sull'Africa e le sue tradizioni vai a:


http://www.soas.ac.uk/languagecentre/home.html

http://www.iuo.it/relaz_int/progetti/CDBantu/AFRLING_llb1.htm

http://www.iuo.it/diprapa/DSRAPA/dsrapa_default.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_languages

http://www.bartleby.com/65/af/Africanlng.html

http://www.bartleby.com/65/af/Afroasia.html 

http://teacherlink.ed.usu.edu/tlresources/units/byrnes-africa/lismar/ 

http://www.africa.upenn.edu/K-12/menu_EduLANG.html

DOMANDA FINALE
dunkan grant  dancers                  Why History?

          What, t
hen, are the benefits of knowledge?
  d. grant   the dancers What are the consequences of ignorance or neglect of history?
VALUTAzione
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