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Korle Meets the Sea M. E. Kropp Dakubu (Professor of Linguistics, Director of Language Centre, Professor of Linguistics, Director of Language Centre, University of Ghana, Legon)

Korle Meets the Sea By M. E. Kropp Dakubu (Professor of Linguistics, Director of Language Centre, Professor of Linguistics, Director of Language Centre, University of Ghana, Legon)

Summary

For centuries, Accra, the capital of Ghana, has been a linguistic anomaly that contains 44 indigenous languages, of which most members of its population speak at least two, Using linguistic, historical, and ethnographic techniques, Dakubu explores the origins and durability of this multilingualism and how it has affected Ghanaian society.

Korle Meets the Sea Summary

Korle Meets the Sea: A Sociolinguistic History of Accra by M. E. Kropp Dakubu (Professor of Linguistics, Director of Language Centre, Professor of Linguistics, Director of Language Centre, University of Ghana, Legon)

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.

Korle Meets the Sea Reviews

... a rich look at a fascinating country with a rich variety of old and new languages ... recommended. * The Carrier Pidgin *

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NPB9780195060614
9780195060614
019506061X
Korle Meets the Sea: A Sociolinguistic History of Accra by M. E. Kropp Dakubu (Professor of Linguistics, Director of Language Centre, Professor of Linguistics, Director of Language Centre, University of Ghana, Legon)
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Oxford University Press Inc
1997-07-10
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