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Publication details [#18028]

Sommer, Gabriele. 1995. Ethnographie des Sprachwechsels: Sozialer Wandel und Sprachverhalten bei den Yeyi (Botswana). [Ethnography of language change: Social change and language behavior among the Yeyi (Botswana).] (Sprachkontakt in Afrika 2). Rudiger Koppe. 504 pp.
Publication type
Book – monograph
Publication language
English
Language as a subject
ISBN
3-927620-25-4

Annotation

The author develops an ethnography of language shift, based on her study of the Yeyi, who are in an advanced stage of shifting from their original language to SeTawana, taking into consideration the interrelationship between linguistic and extralinguistic factors. It is clear that the social structures of the two neighbouring groups -the Yeyi and the Tawana-favored discrimination against the Yeyi, motivating the latter to acquire the language of the Tawana.

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