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Social Motivations for Codeswitching: Evidence from Africa - Oxford Studies in Language Contact Myers-Scotton
Social Motivations for Codeswitching: Evidence from Africa - Oxford Studies in Language Contact
Myers-Scotton
This book deals with codeswitching - the use of two or more different languages in the same conversation. Using data from multilingual African contexts, Carol Myers-Scotton advances an original theory applicable to any society: speakers change languages in order to negotiate a change in the tenor of the conversation, conveying warmth or anger, solidarity or power, by their linguistic choices.
190 pages, maps
| Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
| Released | August 17, 1995 |
| ISBN13 | 9780198239239 |
| Publishers | Oxford University Press |
| Pages | 190 |
| Dimensions | 154 × 233 × 11 mm · 290 g |
| Language | English |
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