Enregistering modernity, bluffing criminality: How nouchi speech reinvented (and fractured) the nation

Journal of Linguistic Anthropology

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 157-184

  Newell, Sasha ^a  

^a Center for Interdisciplinary Studies   (United States)

Author keywords

C te d'Ivoire; Enregisterment; French; Indexicality; Modernity; Nouchi

Indexed keywords

EID: 75649084150     PISSN: 10551360     EISSN: 15481395     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1548-1395.2009.01029.x     Document Type: Article

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