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Title The languages of urban Africa / edited by Fiona Mc Laughlin
Published London ; New York, NY : Continuum, ©2009

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Description 1 online resource (x, 238 pages) : illustrations, maps
Series Advances in sociolinguistics
Advances in sociolinguistics.
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
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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 210-228) and index
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Subject Sociolinguistics -- Africa
Urban dialects -- Africa
Sociolinguistics -- Africa -- Case studies
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguistics -- Sociolinguistics.
Language and languages
Sociolinguistics
Urban dialects
SUBJECT Africa -- Languages. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85001567
Subject Africa
Genre/Form Case studies
Form Electronic book
Author Mc Laughlin, Fiona.
LC no. 2009279432
ISBN 9781441196569
1441196560
9781441117854
1441117857