Social Motivations for Codeswitching
Evidence from Africa
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11116722 |
|---|---|
| Authors | J A Walker (0000-0003-1262-8850, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1997 |
| Volume | 73 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 841 |
| Publication date | 1997-12-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | REVIEW |
| Review of | Social Motivations For Codeswitching: Evidence from Africa, Carol Myers‐scotton, 1993 |
| Venue | Language (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0097-8507 • E-ISSN: 1535-0665 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/417330 |
| OpenAlex | W1986485809 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 3 |
Codeswitching may be broadly defined as the use of two or more linguistic varieties in the same conversation. Using data from multilingual African context, Carol Myers-Scotton advances a theoretical argument which aims at a general explanation of the motivations underlying the phenomenon. She treats codeswitching as a type of skilled performance, not as the 'alternative strategy' of a person who cannot carry on a conversation in the language in which it began. Speakers exploit the socio=psychological values associated with different linguistic varieties in a particular speech community: by switching codes speakers negotiate a change in social distance between themselves and other participants in a conversation. Switching between languages has much in common with making stylistic choices within the same language: it is as if bilingual and multilingual speakers have an additional style at their command when they engage in codeswitching
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