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. She shows how in West Africa notions of localness & locality remain important despite the growing prominence of global languages
Print Book, English, ©2004
Multilingual Matters, Clevedon [England], ©2004
xi, 224 pages ; 22 cm.
9781853597732, 9781853597725, 9781853597749, 1853597732, 1853597724, 1853597740
55665413
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
catdir.loc.gov Table of contents
ebookcentral.proquest.com (access limited to Benedictine University patrons)
site.ebrary.com Available to Stanford-affiliated users at
ebookcentral.proquest.com Click to View