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Publication details [#67125]

Spier, Troy E. 2019. Reading into Riding Culture: Messages and Sayings on Daladala Vehicles in Usa River, Tanzania. Journal of Asian and African Studies 54 (3) : 376–389.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Place, Publisher
SAGE Publications

Annotation

This inquiry qualitatively distinguishes 140 unique tokens—gathered over a period of three weeks—listed on the typically brightly colored daladala vehicles in Usa River, Tanzania and tries to provide a taxonomy of larger discursive categories that delineate these messages and sayings, which are believed to present a metalinguistic commentary on relevant, salient topics of everyday conversations.