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Publication details [#21076]

Blommaert, Jan and Marjolein Gysels. 1990. On the functionality of English interferences in Campus Kiswahili. Afrikanistische Arbeitspapiere 21 : 87–104.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Language as a subject

Annotation

The authors investigate the dynamics of language mixing as observed in Campus Kiswahili, a sociolect of Kiswahili spoken among Tanzanian academics on and around the Dar Es Sallam University hill. It is argued that this mixing process is not a random phenomenon, but can be shown to display internal (linguistic) and external (social) functionality.