Codeswitching and ethnicity
Grammatical types of codeswitching in the Afrikaans speech community
Datos Bibliográficos
| ID | 3125823 |
|---|---|
| Autores | Gerald Stell (0000-0001-9620-2288, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, autor de correspondencia) |
| Año | 2009 |
| Volumen | 2009 |
| Número | 199 |
| Fecha de publicación | 2009-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Sí |
| Open Access | No |
| Tipo | ARTICLE |
| Revista | International Journal of the Sociology of Language (JOURNAL) |
| Identificadores de la revista | ISSN: 0165-2516 • E-ISSN: 1613-3668 |
| Editorial | Walter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1515/ijsl.2009.037 |
| OpenAlex | W1964365565 |
| Idioma | EN |
| Citas recibidas | 4 |
| Referencias citadas | 2 |
Codeswitching in its function as a marker of ethnicity within the same speech community has so far mostly been illustrated with case studies involving closely related codes (e.g. dialect/standard) rather than distinct standard languages. The purpose of this article is to show in how far Afrikaans-English codeswitching reflects in its grammatical forms ethnic divisions within the Afrikaans speech community. In order to answer this question, Muysken's threefold taxonomy of insertions, alternations and congruent lexicalization is used to categorize and quantify forms of Afrikaans-English codeswitching in the informal speech of three age cohorts distributed across seven samples of White and Coloured Afrikaans speakers from South Africa and Namibia. The analysis reveals that codeswitching patterns differ across the ethnic divide not only in terms of relative proportions of insertions, alternations and congruent lexicalization, but also in terms of specific grammatical or syntactic characteristics which these codeswitching types may assume. On the basis of some of these specific characteristics the conclusion is drawn that codeswitching practices remain to some degree conditioned by perceptions of ethnic group membership rather than by histories of language contact or typological distance between Afrikaans and English
Categorization · Ethnic group · Lexicalization · Linguistics · Sociology · Speech community · Anthropology · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Multilingual Education and Policy · Philosophy · Psychology
| Obras citantes distintas | 4 |
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| Citas por año | 0,31 |
| Intervalo de citas | 2013 - 2022 (10) |
| Velocidad de citación | historical |
| Altamente citado | No |
| Tipos de cita | Neutras: 2 |