Contact Linguistics in Africa and Beyond

Contact Linguistics in Africa and Beyond Synopsis

"e;Contact Linguistics in Africa and Beyond"e; 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.