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 Ghanians 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 effected Ghanaian society.
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a rich look at a fascinating country with a rich variety of old and new languages ... recommended. The Carrier Pidgin
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Mary Esther Kropp Dakubu is at University of Ghana, Legon.
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major second language, munity language, primary competence, speech field, linguistic tokens, multilingual situation, exotic languages Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Gold Coast, Cape Coast, Modern Multilingual Accra, Great Accra, Central Accra, West African, Hill Guang, Greater Accra Region, James Fort, Ivory Coast, Republic of Benin, Other People's Languages, Burkina Faso, Volta Region, Ussher Town, Marion Johnson, Formation of the Ga Language Community, Van Dantzig, Upper West Region, Sierra Leone, Ussher Fort, Some Theory, Ayi Kushi, Little Accra, Volta River Browse Sample Pages:
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Gold Coast, Cape Coast, Modern Multilingual Accra, Great Accra, Central Accra, West African, Hill Guang, Greater Accra Region, James Fort, Ivory Coast, Republic of Benin, Other People's Languages, Burkina Faso, Volta Region, Ussher Town, Marion Johnson, Formation of the Ga Language Community, Van Dantzig, Upper West Region, Sierra Leone, Ussher Fort, Some Theory, Ayi Kushi, Little Accra, Volta River Browse Sample Pages:
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- Ethnopragmatics: Understanding Discourse in Cultural Context (Applications of Cognitive Linguistics [Acl]) by Cliff Goddard (Editor) in Back Matter
- Themes in West Africa's History (Western African Studies) by Emmanuel Kwaku Akyeampong in Front Matter
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