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Publication details [#48615]
Blommaert, Jan. 2008. Artefactual ideologies and the textual production of African languages. Language & Communication 28 (4) : 291–307. 
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Language as a subject
Place, Publisher
Elsevier
Journal WWW
Annotation
This article discusses ideologically structured textual artefactualisation practices in African languages research. One mature professional artefactualisation genre, the ‘grammatical sketch’ is explored. These artefactualisations also often function as languages' 'birth certificate'.