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Cultural conceptualizations in Swahili languages and literatures

2018/31/B/HS2/01114

Keywords:

metaphor cultural models conceptualization Swahili language Swahili culture

Descriptors:

  • HS2_6: General linguistics, theory and methodology of linguistic research

Panel:

HS2 - Culture and cultural production: literary theory and comparative literature, history of literature, linguistics, library science, cultural studies, arts, architecture

Host institution :

Uniwersytet Warszawski, Wydział Orientalistyczny

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Principal investigator (from the host institution):

dr hab. Iwona Kraska-Szlenk 

Number of co-investigators in the project: 4

Call: OPUS 16 - announced on 2018-09-14

Amount awarded: 564 200 PLN

Project start date (Y-m-d): 2019-07-26

Project end date (Y-m-d): 2024-01-25

Project duration:: 54 months (the same as in the proposal)

Project status: Project settled

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  • Publication in academic press/journals (7)
  • Book publications / chapters in book publications (7)
  1. Cultural norms of greetings in the African context
    Authors:
    Beata Wójtowicz
    Academic press:
    Roczniki Humanistyczne (rok: 2021, tom: 6, strony: 171-187), Wydawca: KUL
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.18290/rh21696-10 - link to the publication
  2. Socjokulturowy aspekt powitań w suahili
    Authors:
    Beata Wójtowicz
    Academic press:
    Afryka (rok: 2019, tom: 50, strony: 101-118), Wydawca: Polskie Towarzystwo Afrykanistyczne oraz Katedra Języków i Kultur Afryki
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.32690/AFR50.5 - link to the publication
  3. Voter education for women in multiethnic Kenyan society. The case study of 2017 general elections
    Authors:
    Maria Piotrowska
    Academic press:
    African Affairs (rok: 2021, tom: 1(3), strony: 45306), Wydawca: Royal African Society
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.51483/IJAFRS.1.3.2021.1-15 - link to the publication
  4. Kiswahili research in Cognitive and Cultural Linguistics
    Authors:
    Iwona Kraska-Szlenk
    Academic press:
    Swahili Forum (rok: 2023, tom: 30, strony: 196-214), Wydawca: Universität Leipzig
    Status:
    Published
  5. Greeting in two Bantu languages: Swahili and Zulu
    Authors:
    Lionel Posthumus i Beata Wójtowicz
    Academic press:
    Studies in African Languages and Cultures (rok: 2021, tom: 55, strony: 45564), Wydawca: Katedra Języków i Kultur Afryki UW
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.32690/SALC55.1 - link to the publication
  6. Kwani mwanamke ni nani? Si binadamu sisi?": Women's Rights Reclaimed in Zainab Alwi Baharoon's 'Mungu Hakopeshwi'
    Authors:
    Izabela Romańczuk
    Academic press:
    Kiswahili (rok: 2020, tom: 83, strony: 95-116), Wydawca: Uniwersytet Dar es Salaam
    Status:
    Published
  7. Structural, socio-pragmatic and cultural aspects of teaching African languages in Poland
    Authors:
    Izabela Will i Beata Wójtowicz
    Academic press:
    Rocznik Orientalistyczny (rok: 2024, tom: -, strony: -), Wydawca: The Committee of Oriental Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences and The Publishing House ELIPSA
    Status:
    Accepted for publication
  1. -
    Authors:
    Iwona Kraska i Beata Wójtowicz (red.)
    Book:
    Language, Culture, Literature Intertwined: The Swahili Perspective (rok: 2023, tom: -, strony: 1-152), Wydawca: WUW
    Status:
    Published
  2. -
    Authors:
    Iwona Kraska-Szlenk i Beata Wójtowicz (red.)
    Book:
    Język i literatura suahili: konteksty społeczno-kulturowe (rok: 2021, tom: -, strony: 1-201), Wydawca: Dom Wydawniczy Elipsa
    Status:
    Published
  3. -
    Authors:
    Izabela Romańczuk
    Book:
    W poszukiwaniu własnego głosu. Powieść suahili kobiet z Tanzanii w perspektywie półwiecza (rok: 2022, tom: 1, strony: 1-162), Wydawca: Dom Wydawniczy Elipsa
    Status:
    Published
  4. -
    Authors:
    Izabela Romańczuk
    Book:
    The Swahili Novels of Tanzanian Women: Agency, Tradition, and Change (rok: 2024, tom: -, strony: 1-150), Wydawca: Routledge
    Status:
    Accepted for publication
  5. Is time money, is argument war? Swahili cultural conceptualizations and language usage
    Authors:
    Iwona Kraska-Szlenk
    Book:
    The Handbook of Cultural Linguistics (rok: 2024, tom: -, strony: -), Wydawca: Springer
    Status:
    Accepted for publication
  6. Embodied lexicon and cultural conceptualizations in Swahili
    Authors:
    Iwona Kraska-Szlenk
    Book:
    Past in Present: (Re)conceptualized Tradition Across Languages and Cultures (rok: 2024, tom: -, strony: -), Wydawca: Springer
    Status:
    Accepted for publication
  7. -
    Authors:
    Maria Piotrowska
    Book:
    "Chodzący po wodzie". Barack Obama i jego polityka w kenijskiej karykaturze w latach 2008-2016 (rok: 2021, tom: -, strony: 1-245), Wydawca: Dom Wydawniczy Elipsa
    Status:
    Published