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Obiri-Yeboah, Monica Apenteng. 2019. Multilingualism at church: language practices in a Ghanaian context. Current Issues in Language Planning 20 (4) : 403–417.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Place, Publisher
Routledge

Annotation

This study explores the linguistic repertories and fields of language use of the members of Victory Baptist Church at Nkwantanang, an Akan-speaking area in the Eastern Region of Ghana. A main finding is that there are many instances of code-switching amid the youth, which are ascribable to the language contact situation in the church and the town. Further, monolingual elderly women have recourse to lexical borrowing. This study displays that the language situation in Nkwantanang is rather multilingual notwithstanding the community's small size and reclusion.