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UNINA9910778417103321 |
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Titolo |
The languages of urban Africa [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Fiona Mc Laughlin |
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London ; ; New York, NY, : Continuum, c2009 |
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ISBN |
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1-282-31954-X |
9786612319549 |
1-4411-9656-0 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (251 p.) |
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Collana |
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Advances in sociolinguistics |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Sociolinguistics - Africa |
Urban dialects - Africa |
Africa Languages |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 210-228) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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 |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 ways in which urban dwellers form their speech communities. The volume then moves on to explore the |
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