Ethnicity and language variation : grammar and code-switching in the Afrikaans speech community. Schriften zur Afrikanistik ; Bd. 19.

Stell, Gerald:

ISBN 10: 3631621655 / ISBN 13: 9783631621653

Edité par Frankfurt, M. u.a. : Lang, 2011

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297 S. : graph. Darst. Ein tadelloses Exemplar. - This book discusses the linguistic reflection of ethnicity using as an illustration informal speech patterns in the bi-ethnic Afrikaans speech community. Its theoretical outlook is based on variationist studies and discourse studies on the processes shaping ethnicity. Two areas of language variation come into focus, namely Afrikaans morphosyntax and Afrikaans-English code-switching. Coloured and White speech norms are quantitatively reconstructed on the basis of a corpus of informal speech. This forms the point of departure for a qualitative reconstruction of strategies of ethnic identity negotiation. It is shown that quantifiable trends of linguistic convergence are not incompatible with enduring ethnic differentiation in speech norms. ISBN 9783631621653 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 477.

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• Titre: Ethnicity and language variation : grammar and code-switching in the Afrikaans speech community. Schriften zur Afrikanistik ; Bd. 19.
• Éditeur: Frankfurt, M. u.a. : Lang
• Date de parution: 2011
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 3631621655
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9783631621653
• Reliure: Originalhardcover.
• État de l'article: Sehr gut
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This book discusses the linguistic reflection of ethnicity using as an illustration informal speech patterns in the bi-ethnic Afrikaans speech community. Its theoretical outlook is based on variationist studies and discourse studies on the processes shaping ethnicity. Two areas of language variation come into focus, namely Afrikaans morphosyntax and Afrikaans-English code-switching. Coloured and White speech norms are quantitatively reconstructed on the basis of a corpus of informal speech. This forms the point of departure for a qualitative reconstruction of strategies of ethnic identity negotiation. It is shown that quantifiable trends of linguistic convergence are not incompatible with enduring ethnic differentiation in speech norms.

À propos de l?auteur

Gerald Stell is a research fellow at the Free University of Brussels (V.U.B./F.W.O.). His thesis focused on language variation in informal spoken Afrikaans. His focus areas include the relationship between ethnicity and language, code-switching, morphosyntactic variation and ethnic varieties of Afrikaans.