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Vernacular palaver [electronic resource] : imaginations of the local and non-native languages in West Africa / Moradewun Adejunmobi.

By: Adejunmobi, Moradewun, 1959-.
Contributor(s): ebrary, Inc.
Series: Languages for intercultural communication and education: 9.Publisher: Clevedon [England] ; Buffalo : Multilingual Matters, c2004Description: xi, 224 p. ; 22 cm.Subject(s): Sociolinguistics -- Africa, West | Africa, West -- LanguagesGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 306.44/0966 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
Contents:
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.
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306.44/0966 (Browse shelf) Available

Includes bibliographical references (p. 206-221) and index.

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.

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Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2009. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.