Anne Storch

Secret Manipulations

Language and Context in Africa

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Secret Manipulations is the first comprehensive study of African register variation, polylectality, and derived languages. It provides a new approach to local language ideologies and concepts of grammar and metalinguistic knowledge.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 262
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. September 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 386g
• ISBN-13: 9780199769025
• ISBN-10: 0199769028
• Artikelnr.: 37256807

Autorenporträt

Anne Storch is Professor of African Linguistics at the University of Cologne.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Acknowledgments
1.: Change and Manipulation
2.: Social Distances
3.: Secrecy
4.: Mimesis
5.: Sacrilege
6.: Ambiguity
7.: Contact
8.: Conclusions
Appendix
List of Languages
References
Index