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• Title:The languages of urban Africa / edited by Fiona Mc Laughlin.
  
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• Other Contributors/Collections:Mc Laughlin, Fiona.
  
• Published/Created:London ; New York : Continuum, ©2009.
  

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  • Location:KOERNER LIBRARY stacks (Floor 1)Where is this?
    
  • Call Number: P40.45.A35 L364 2009
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Sociolinguistics--Africa.
  Urban dialects--Africa.
  Sociolinguistics--Africa--Case studies.
  Africa--Languages.
  
• Description:x, 238 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
  
• Series:Advances in sociolinguistics.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 210-228) and index.
  
• ISBN:9781847061164 (Hardback)
  1847061168 (Hardback)
  
• Contents:1. Introduction to the languages of urban Africa / Fiona McLaughlin
  2. historical dynamic of multilingualism in Accra / M. E. Kropp Dakubu
  3. story of old-urban vernaculars in North Africa / Atiqa Hachimi
  4. spread of Lingala as a lingua franca in the Congo Basin / Eyamba G. Bokamba
  5. Senegal's early cities and the making of an urban language / Fiona McLaughlin
  6. Discourse, community, identity : processes of linguistic homogenization in Bamako / Cecile Canut
  7. multiple facets of the urban language form, Nouchi / Sabine Kube-Barth
  8. On assessing the ethnolinguistic vitality of Ga in Accra / James Essegbey
  9. Multilingualism and language use in Porto Novo / Wale Adeniran
  10. Language choice in Dar es Salaam's billboards / Charles Bwenge
  11. Innovations on the fringes of the Kiswahili-speaking world / Haig Der-Houssikian
  12. Polarizing and blending : compatible practices in a bilingual urban community in Cape Town / Kay McCormick.