Secret Manipulations: Language and Context in Africa

by Anne Storch

Book Overview

Secret Manipulations is the first comprehensive study of African register variation, polylectality, and derived languages. Focusing on a specific form of language change-deliberate manipulations of a language by its speakers-it provides a new approach to local language ideologies and concepts of grammar and metalinguistic knowledge.

Anne Storch concentrates on case studies from Nigeria, Uganda, Sudan, the African diaspora, and 16th century...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199769028
• ISBN13: 9780199769025
• Release Date: September 2011
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 262 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.1"