Social Motivations for Codeswitching: Evidence from Africa

(Part of the Oxford Studies in Language Contact Series)

by Carol Myers-Scotton

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This study focuses on the social motivations for codeswitching, that is, the use of two or more linguistic varieties in the same conversation. Using data from multilingual African contexts (mostly from conversations studied in Kenya), Carol Myers-Scotton advances a theoretical argument which aims at a general explanation of these motivations. She treats codeswitching as a type of skilled performance, not as the "alternative strategy" of a person who...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0198239238

ISBN13:9780198239239

Release Date:September 1995

Publisher:Clarendon Press

Length:190 Pages

Weight:0.61 lbs.

Dimensions:0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"

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(Part of the Oxford Studies in Language Contact Series)

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