Vernacular palaver : imaginations of the local and non-native languages in West Africa /

Vernacular Palaver examines the continuing appeal of the idea of the 'local' for cultural brokers in West Africa, even in instances where they have a growing interaction with diverse global and continental languages of wider communication.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Adejunmobi, Moradewun, 1959-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Clevedon [England] ; Buffalo : Multilingual Matters, ©2004.
Series:Languages for intercultural communication and education ; 9.
Subjects:
Sociolinguistics > Africa, West.
Sociolinguistique > Afrique occidentale.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Linguistics > Sociolinguistics.
Language and languages
Sociolinguistics
Sprachpolitik
Soziolinguistik
Mehrsprachigkeit
Sprache
Africa, West > Languages.
Afrique occidentale > Langues.
West Africa
Westafrika
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Colonial encounters and discourses of the vernacular
  • African literature, European languages, and imaginations of the local
  • Foreign languages, local audiences : the case of Nigerian video film in English
  • Romance without borders : narrating love, femininity, and the local in contemporary Ivory Coast
  • Languages of wider communication and alternative sites of belonging.

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