Social Motivations for Codeswitching Evidence from Africa |
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Author:
| Myers-Scotton, Carol |
Series title: | Oxford Studies in Language Contact Ser. |
ISBN: | 978-0-19-823923-9 |
Publication Date: | Sep 1995 |
Publisher: | Oxford University Press, Incorporated
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Imprint: | Clarendon Press |
Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | USD $78.00 |
Book Description:
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This book deals with codeswitching - the use of two or more different languages in the same conversation. Using data from multilingual African contexts, Carol Myers-Scotton advances an original theory applicable to any society: speakers change languages in order to negotiate a change in the tenor of the conversation, conveying warmth or anger, solidarity or power, by their linguistic choices.
This book deals with codeswitching - the use of two or more different languages in the same conversation. Using data from multilingual African contexts, Carol Myers-Scotton advances an original theory applicable to any society: speakers change languages in order to negotiate a change in the tenor of the conversation, conveying warmth or anger, solidarity or power, by their linguistic choices.