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‘The Lord Is My Shock Absorber’: A Sociohistorical Integrationist Approach to Mid-Twentieth-Century Literacy Practices in Ghana

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Taking a sociohistorical perspective, this chapter analyses the language practices of taxi inscriptions in Ghana during the mid-twentieth century. Through the lens of Integrationism, the chapter explores whether recent scholarship in sociolinguistics has advanced African linguistic scholarship beyond existing ideologies of named, countable African languages.

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  1. Department of Applied Linguistics and Program in African Studies, 311 Sparks Building, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, 16802 5203, PA, Pennsylvania, USA

    Sinfree Makoni

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  1. School of Education, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham, United Kingdom

    Adrian Blackledge

  2. School of Education, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham, United Kingdom

    Angela Creese

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Makoni, S. (2014). ‘The Lord Is My Shock Absorber’: A Sociohistorical Integrationist Approach to Mid-Twentieth-Century Literacy Practices in Ghana. In: Blackledge, A., Creese, A. (eds) Heteroglossia as Practice and Pedagogy. Educational Linguistics, vol 20. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-7856-6_5

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