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Publication details [#29137]

Ngom, Fallou. 2002. Linguistic resistance in the Murid speech community in Senegal. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development 23 (3) : 214–226.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

colonialism | identity negotiation | language use | nationalism | religion

Language as a subject

French | Wolof

Place, Publisher

Multilingual Matters

ISBN

0143-4632

Journal WWW

www.multilingual-matters.com/multi/onlinej.asp

Annotation

This paper discusses the history of Senegal's colonisation by the French, and explores the birth context of Muridism, a non-violent, religious, anti-colonial resistance movement and its linguistic and religious behavior.