Publications

Publication details [#13797]

Singh, Rajendra. 1995. We, They and Us: A Note on Code-Switching and Stratification in North India. In Singh, Rajendra, Probal Dasgupta and Jayant K. Lele. Explorations in Indian Sociolinguistics. (Language and Development 2). SAGE Publications. pp. 131–134.

Publication type

Article in book

Publication language

English

Keywords

code-switching | stratificational grammar

Language as a subject

English | Hindi-Urdu

Person as a subject

Gumperz, J.J.

Annotation

Considering the claims made by Gumperz, S. argues here that although the direction of a code-switch undoubtedly carries semantic import, the determination of the we/they code opposition is fraught with empirical difficulties.