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Secret manipulations : language and context in Africa / Anne Storch.

Title: Secret manipulations : language and context in Africa / Anne Storch.
Author: Storch, Anne
Publication: New York : Oxford University Press, c2011.

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Description

xx, 242 p. : ill., maps; 24 cm.

Summary

This book addresses a specific form of language change: deliberate manipulations of a language by its speakers. These manipulations are based and depend on cultural and social contexts; they are often considered to be secret and are at the same time expressions of difference and power.

Uniform Title

University press scholarship online.

Subject

Africa > Languages
Linguistic change > Africa

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Processing Action (note)

committed to retain

ISBN

9780199768974 (alk. paper)
0199768978 (alk. paper)
9780199769025 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0199769028 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2010033701