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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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Clevedon [England] ; Buffalo :
Multilingual Matters,
[2004]
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| Series: | Languages for intercultural communication and education ;
9. |
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| Online Access: | Table of contents |
Table of Contents:
- Colonial encounters and discourses of the vernacular
- African literature, European languages, and imaginations of the local
- Foreign languages, local audiences : the case of Nigerian video film in English
- Romance without borders : narrating love, femininity, and the local in contemporary Ivory Coast
- Languages of wider communication and alternative sites of belonging.