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Speaking and social identity [[electronic resource] ] : English in the lives of urban Africans / / by Lawrence B. Breitborde



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Autore: Breitborde Lawrence B (Lawrence Bart) Visualizza persona
Titolo: Speaking and social identity [[electronic resource] ] : English in the lives of urban Africans / / by Lawrence B. Breitborde Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Berlin ; ; New York, : Mouton de Gruyter, 1998
Edizione: Reprint 2011
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (240 p.)
Disciplina: 306.44/096662
Soggetto topico: English language - Social aspects - Liberia
English language - Spoken English - Liberia
Speech and social status - Liberia
Languages in contact - Liberia
Urban dialects - Liberia
Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [209]-223) and index.
Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Preface -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- Chapter 1 Language and Life in Monrovia -- Chapter 2 New Krutown -- Chapter 3 Linguistic Diversity and Sociolinguistic Patterns -- Chapter 4 Conveying Social Information Through English -- Chapter 5 Social Situations and the Choice of English -- Chapter 6 Civilized Values, Civilized Language -- Chapter 7 Structural Constraints and Individual Differences in the Use of English -- Chapter 8 Systemic Inequality and the Social Meaning of English -- Notes -- Glossary of Key Names and Kru Terminology -- Bibliography -- Index
Titolo autorizzato: Speaking and social identity  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 3-11-089308-8
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910462006703321
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Serie: Studies in Anthropological Linguistics