Code-switching and social stratification in a rural Chasu community in Tanzania

Datos Bibliográficos

ID20406461
AutoresRafiki Sebonde, Rafiki Yohana Sebonde (0000-0001-7524-9570, The University of Dodoma, autor de correspondencia)
Año2012
Volumen43
Número1
Páginas60-76
Fecha de publicación2012-07-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaLanguage Matters (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1022-8195 • E-ISSN: 1753-5395
EditorialInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/10228195.2011.627683
OpenAlexW2054307049
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas3
Referencias citadas14

Traditionally, contact linguistics paid less attention to internal speaker diversity in contact situations, treating groups in contact as relatively homogeneous. This research investigates whether different subgroups of speakers in a contact situation show different effects. In particular, this research investigates whether key sociolinguistic variables such as social class, gender, age and educational levels have as much bearing as in Western variationist sociolinguistics, in explaining the occurrence of code-switching in the rural trilingual Chasu community of the Same District (Kilimanjaro, Tanzania), where Chasu, Swahili and English co-exist. The study reveals how the socio-economic status of the language used by the dominant group, and the degree and duration of contact determine the scope of code-switching among rural Tanzanian Chasu speakers

Code-switching · Geography · Language contact · Linguistics · Rural community · Socioeconomics · Sociolinguistics · Sociology · Swahili · Tanzania · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Multilingual Education and Policy