Recruiting a nonlocal language for performing local identity: Indexical appropriations of Lingala in the Congolese border town Goma

Abstract This article describes discursive processes by which inhabitants of the Congolese border town Goma attribute new indexical values to Lingala, a language exogenous to the area of which most Goma inhabitants only possess limited knowledge. This creative reconfiguration of indexicalities resul... View More