Vernacular palaver : imaginations of the local and non-native languages in West Africa /

Adejunmobi highlights the continuing appeal of local identities for participants in social networks where communication occurs in languages that are not mother tongues. He shows how in West Africa notions of localness & locality remain important despite the growing prominence of global languages...

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Bibliographic Details

Main Author:	Adejunmobi, Moradewun, 1959-
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Clevedon [England] ; Buffalo : Multilingual Matters, [2004]
Series:	Languages for intercultural communication and education ; 9.
Subjects:	Sociolinguistics > Africa, West. Sprachpolitik. Soziolinguistik. Africa, West > Languages. Westafrika.
Online Access:	Table of contents