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Social Motivations For Codeswitching: Evidence from Africa (Oxford Studies in Language Contact)
Social Motivations For Codeswitching Evidence from Africa - Oxford Studies in Language Contact
Author: Carol Myers-Scotton
This study focuses on the social motivations for codeswitching, that is, the use of two or more linguistic varieties in the same conversation. Using data from multilingual African contexts (mostly from conversations studied in Kenya), Carol Myers-Scotton advances a theoretical argument which aims at a general explanation of these motivations. ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780198239239
ISBN-10: 0198239238
Publication Date: 9/28/1995
Pages: 192
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Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Book Type: Paperback
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