The languages of urban Africa [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Fiona Mc Laughlin |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | London ; ; New York, NY, : Continuum, c2009 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (251 p.) |
Disciplina | 306.44096091732 |
Altri autori (Persone) | Mc LaughlinFiona |
Collana | Advances in sociolinguistics |
Soggetto topico |
Sociolinguistics - Africa
Urban dialects - Africa |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-282-31954-X
9786612319549 1-4411-9656-0 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
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 |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910455085903321 |
London ; ; New York, NY, : Continuum, c2009 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The languages of urban Africa [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Fiona Mc Laughlin |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | London ; ; New York, NY, : Continuum, c2009 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (251 p.) |
Disciplina | 306.44096091732 |
Altri autori (Persone) | Mc LaughlinFiona |
Collana | Advances in sociolinguistics |
Soggetto topico |
Sociolinguistics - Africa
Urban dialects - Africa |
ISBN |
1-282-31954-X
9786612319549 1-4411-9656-0 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
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 |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910778417103321 |
London ; ; New York, NY, : Continuum, c2009 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The languages of urban Africa / / edited by Fiona Mc Laughlin |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | London ; ; New York, NY, : Continuum, c2009 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (251 p.) |
Disciplina | 306.44096091732 |
Altri autori (Persone) | Mc LaughlinFiona |
Collana | Advances in sociolinguistics |
Soggetto topico |
Sociolinguistics - Africa
Urban dialects - Africa |
ISBN |
1-282-31954-X
9786612319549 1-4411-9656-0 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
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 |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910823495903321 |
London ; ; New York, NY, : Continuum, c2009 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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