Contact Linguistics in Africa and Beyond

ISBN: 9781626183193 出版年：2013 页码：286 Akinmade T Akande Rotimi Taiwo Nova Science

"Contact Linguistics in Africa and Beyond" is an edited volume which focuses on the sociolinguistics of contact linguistics. This volume comprises fifteen chapters with contributions from seasoned sociolinguistics such as Myers-Scotton, Peter Auer, Daniel Nkemleke and Edmund Bamiro. Topics such as language contact phenomenon, theories related to codeswitching and code-mixing,and quantitative analysis are examined. The influences of specific hip-hop lyrics and writing styles, and an examination of idiomatic expressions in two languages and their similarities are also discussed.