Vernacular palaver : imaginations of the local and non-native languages in West Africa /

Main Author: Adejunmobi, Moradewun, 1959-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Clevedon [England] ; Buffalo : Multilingual Matters, ©2004.
Series:Languages for intercultural communication and education ; 9
Subjects:
Online Access:http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=116996
Table of 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.