Ethnicity and Language Variation : Grammar and Code-switching in the Afrikaans Speech Community
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Gerald Stell
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Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
3631621655
ISBN-13
9783631621653
Edition
New
Publisher
Peter Lang AG
Imprint
Peter Lang AG
Country of Manufacture
DE
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Dec 2nd, 2011
Print length
298 Pages
Weight
480 grams
Dimensions
15.40 x 21.60 x 2.10 cms
Product Classification:
SociolinguisticsLiterary studies: generalCultural studiesSociology: customs & traditions
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Ethnicity and Language Variation
This book discusses the linguistic reflection of ethnicity using as an illustration informal speech patterns in the bi-ethnic Afrikaans speech community. Its theoretical outlook is based on variationist studies and discourse studies on the processes shaping ethnicity. Two areas of language variation come into focus, namely Afrikaans morphosyntax and Afrikaans-English code-switching. Coloured and White speech norms are quantitatively reconstructed on the basis of a corpus of informal speech. This forms the point of departure for a qualitative reconstruction of strategies of ethnic identity negotiation. It is shown that quantifiable trends of linguistic convergence are not incompatible with enduring ethnic differentiation in speech norms.
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