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Secret Manipulations : Language and Context in Africa by Anne Storch is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Secret Manipulations : Language and Context in Africa about?
__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 Europe. In these cases, language manipulation varies with social and cultural contexts, and is almost always done in secret. At the same time, this manipulation can be an act of subversion and an expression of power, and it is often central to the construction of social norms, as it constructs oppositions and gives marginalized people a chance to articulate themselves. This volume illustrates how manipulated languages are constructed, how they are used, and how they wield power.
Who reads Secret Manipulations : Language and Context in Africa?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Anne Storch
- Publisher
- Oxford ; New York; Oxford University Press
- Published
- 2011
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9786613235725
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Linguistics, Language Learning, Literary Fiction