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SUMMARY: The Encyclopaedia of Literature in African Languages - Ursula Bau
 mgardt and Marie Lorin (National Institute of Oriental Languages and Civil
 isations (INALCO) and Mixed Research Unit (UMR) CNRS\, Language\, Language
 s and Cultures of Black Africa (LLACAN))
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CONTACT:Claire Wheeler
DESCRIPTION:The Encyclopaedia of Literature in African Languages (ELLAF) p
 roject focuses on oral and written literature in African languages. The EL
 LAF project proposes the creation of a website presenting and analysing li
 terary texts in African languages\, in order to make a wide range of these
  written or oral texts\, in Sub-Saharan African and Malagasy languages\, a
 vailable to enthusiasts\, students and specialists from around the world. 
 The project aims to build up a research database based on literary works p
 roduced in their original languages\, translated into French and/or Englis
 h and presented in their linguistic\, social and cultural contexts.The web
 site signifies the creation of new tools for presenting and analysing text
 ual data\, centred on written/oral African literature in African languages
  regardless of their sociolinguistic status. This presentation favours res
 earch through various fields (language\, author\, literary genre\, predefi
 ned keyword and/or full text keyword) using a cross-disciplinary and compa
 rative method. It provides access to\, for example: every text from a part
 icular literature\, the same genre found in several literatures\, one them
 e in several literatures\, a figurative element in several genres\, notion
 al degrees not necessarily made explicit by lexical occurrences. The mater
 ial available here is ready for teaching straight away in regards to the t
 ransmission of factual knowledge: presentation of a language\, overview of
  literature\, contextualisation of literary production\, bibliographic dat
 a. Furthermore\, the bringing together of oral and written literary texts 
 is not only of interest in a practical and documentary sense\, but equally
  from a theoretical point of view. 
LOCATION:McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research\, Downing Site
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