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The languages of urban Africa / edited by Fiona Mc Laughlin.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Advances in sociolinguistics.
- Advances in sociolinguistics
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sociolinguistics--Africa.
- Sociolinguistics.
- Urban dialects--Africa.
- Urban dialects.
- Sociolinguistics--Africa--Case studies.
- Africa--Languages.
- Africa.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (251 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York, NY : Continuum, c2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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 ways in which urban dwellers form their speech communities. The volume then moves on to explore the relationship between language and identity in the urban setting. The final two case studies in the volume address the evolution of urban languages in Africa. This rich set of chapters examine languag
- Contents:
- Contents; 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
- 10 Language choice in Dar es Salaam's billboards11 Innovations on the fringes of the Kiswahili-speaking world; 12 Polarizing and blending: compatible practices in a bilingual urban community in Cape Town; References; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 210-228) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786612319549
- 9781282319547
- 128231954X
- 9781441196569
- 1441196560
- OCLC:
- 646847157
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