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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.Publication details: Clevedon [England] ; Buffalo : Multilingual Matters, c2004.Description: xi, 224 p. ; 22 cmSubject(s):

Genre/Form:

Electronic books.

DDC classification:

306.44/0966 22

LOC classification:

P381.A36 A33 2004eb

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

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

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