Adejunmobi Vernacular Palaver

Imaginations of the Local and Non-Native Languages in West Africa
1. Auflage 2004
ISBN: 978-1-85359-774-9
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 240 Seiten, Format (B × H): 149 mm x 210 mm

Reihe: Languages for Intercultural Communication and Education

This book highlights the continuing appeal of local identities for participants in social networks where communication occurs in languages that are not mother tongues.It demonstrates the importance of notions of localness and locality for speakers of non-native languages, despite the growing prominence of global languages in their lives.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Adejunmobi, Moradewun

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften

Über Autor(innen)

Moradewun Adejunmobiis an Associate Professor in the African American and African Studies Program of the University of California, Davis, USA. She has also taught at the University of Ibadan in Nigeria and the University of Botswana. Her current research interests are in questions of language and identity in African literature and popular culture. She has also worked on Malagasy literature in French and is the author of JJ Rabearivelo, Literature and Lingua Franca in Colonial Madagascar.