Korle Meets the Sea : a Sociolinguistic History of Accra
- Language
- English. English.
- Imprint
- New York : Oxford University Press, 1997.
- Physical description
- 1 online resource (235 pages)
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Creators/Contributors
- Author/Creator
- Kropp Dakubu, M. E. (Mary Esther)
Contents/Summary
- Contents
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- Contents;
- 1. A Dispute, a Saying, and Some Theory;
- 2. Multilingualism and the West African City;
- 3. Modern Multilingual Accra I;
- 4. Modern Multilingual Accra II;
- 5. To the Sea: The Formation of the Ga Language Community;
- 6. Upstream, Inland: Other People's Languages;
- 7. Beyond the Sea: Exotic Languages;
- 8. Flood Control: The Dynamics of Multilingualism; Notes; References; Index.
- Publisher's summary
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Ghana has played a key role in African/Western relations since medieval times. For this reason and others, Ghana has evolved into a linguistic quilt that contains forty-four indigenous languages and several exotic ones, of which most Ghanaians speak at least two. Using Accra, Ghana's capital, as a microcosm, Dakubu conducts a linguistic, historical, and ethnographic investigation of the origins and durability of this multilingualism and how it has affected Ghanaian society.
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Subjects
- Subjects
- Multilingualism > Ghana > Accra.
- Accra (Ghana) > Languages.
- POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
- SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
- SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
- Language and languages.
- Multilingualism.
- Ghana > Accra.
- Philology & Linguistics.
- Languages & Literatures.
Bibliographic information
- Publication date
- 1997
- ISBN
- 9780195345186 (electronic bk.)
- 0195345185 (electronic bk.)
- 1280524219
- 9781280524219
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