LINGUIST List 9.580

Thu Apr 16 1998

Books: Anthropological Ling

Editor for this issue: Martin Jacobsen <martylinguistlist.org>

Directory

1. Christoph Eyrich, New Book: Anthropological Linguistics

			Lawrence B. Breitborde

		 SPEAKING AND SOCIAL IDENTITY
		English in the Lives of Urban Africans

 1998. XII, 227 pages
		 Cloth DM 198,-/approx. US 124.00
			 ISBN 3-11-014796-3
	 Studies in Anthropological Linguistics 11

		Mouton de Gruyter * Berlin * New York

This monograph is an anthropological study of the social significance
of English among Kru residents of Monrovia, the capital city of
Liberia. Based on participant-observation ethnography, this study
constructs a theoretical approach in which macrolevel and microlevel
perspectives are integrated.

By viewing the use of English in relation to changing social identity,
the monograph contributes to our understanding of how African citizens
use language to negotiate conflicts and aspirations based on
socioeconomic position and ethnic solidarity.
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