Repertoires and Choices in African Languages / / Friederike Lüpke, Anne Storch.

Most African languages are spoken by communities as one of several languages present on a daily basis. The persistence of multilingualism and the linguistic creativity manifest in the playful use of different languages are striking, especially against the backdrop of language death and expanding mon...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
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Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2013]
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Year of Publication:2013
Language:English
Series:Language Contact and Bilingualism [LCB] , 5
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Physical Description:1 online resource (405 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Preface
  • Contents
  • List of Tables, Maps and Figures
  • List of figures with cited and archived web pages. Copyrights for repoduced photographs
  • List of Languages
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • 1. Multilingualism on the ground
  • 2. Doing things with words
  • 3. Language and ideology
  • 4. Language and knowledge
  • 5. Language dynamics
  • 6. Not languages: repertoires as lived and living experience
  • References
  • Language Index
  • Subject Index
  • Author Index