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• Title:Globalization and language vitality : perspectives from Africa / edited by Cécile B. Vigouroux, Salikoko S. Mufwene.
  
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• Other Contributors/Collections:Vigouroux, Cécile B.
  Mufwene, Salikoko S.
  
• Published/Created:London ; New York : Continuum, ©2008.
  

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  • Location:KOERNER LIBRARY stacks (Floor 1)Where is this?
    
  • Call Number: PL8005 .G58 2008
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:African languages.
  Language and culture--Africa.
  Languages in contact--Africa.
  Linguistic geography.
  Globalization--Social aspects--Africa.
  Africa--Languages.
  
• Description:ix, 291 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
  
• ISBN:9780826495143
  9780826495150 (pbk.)
  
• Contents:1. Introduction / Salikoko S. Mufwene and Cecile B. Vigouroux
  2. Trajectories of Language Endangerment in South Africa / Rajend Mesthrie
  3. Circumstances of Language Shift and Death in Southern Africa / Herman M. Batibo
  4. African Modernity, Transnationalism, and Language Vitality: Portuguese in Multilingual Mozambique / Christopher Stroud
  5. Lives of Local and Regional Congolese Languages in Globalized Linguistic Markets / Eyamba G. Bokamba
  6. Globalization and Sociolinguistic Stratification in North Africa: The case of Morocco / Ahmed Boukous
  7. Ascent of Wolof as an Urban Vernacular and National Lingua Franca in Senegal / Fiona McLaughlin
  8. On the Futurology of Linguistic Development / Robert Chaudenson
  9. Globalization and the Sociolinguistics of the Internet: Between English and Kiswahili / Alamin Mazrui
  10. Writing Locality in Globalized Swahili: Semiotizing Space in a Tanzanian novel / Jan Blommaert
  11. From Africa to Africa: Globalization, Migration and Language Vitality / Cecile B. Vigouroux
  12. Creating the Conditions for a Counter-Hegemonic Strategy: African Languages in the Twenty-First Century / Neville Alexander.