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The Languages of Urban Africa consists of a series of case studies that address four main themes.¨The first is the history of African urban languages. The second set focus on theoretical issues in the study of African urban languages, exploring the outcomes of intense multilingualism and also the wa...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Mc Laughlin, Fiona
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London ; New York, NY : Continuum, Ã2009.
Colección:Advances in sociolinguistics.
Temas:
Sociolinguistics > Africa.
Urban dialects > Africa.
Sociolinguistics > Africa > Case studies.
Sociolinguistique > Afrique.
Dialectes urbains > Afrique.
Sociolinguistique > Afrique > ĐEtudes de cas.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Linguistics > Sociolinguistics.
Language and languages
Sociolinguistics
Urban dialects
Africa > Languages.
Afrique > Langues.
Africa
Case studies
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Acknowledgments; Notes on Contributors; 1 Introduction to the languages of urban Africa; 2 The historical dynamic of multilingualism in Accra; 3 The story of old-urban vernaculars in North Africa; 4 The spread of Lingala as a lingua franca in the Congo Basin; 5 Senegal's early cities and the making of an urban language; 6 Discourse, community, identity: processes of linguistic homogenization in Bamako; 7 The multiple facets of the urban language form, Nouchi; 8 On assessing the ethnolinguistic vitality of Ga in Accra; 9 Multilingualism and language use in Porto Novo.

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