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Publication details [#32449]

Jan, Jariah Mohd. 2003. Code-switching for power wielding: Inter-gender discourse at the workplace. Multilingua 22 (1) : 41–58.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

code-switching | gender | language choice | power | workplace conversation

Place, Publisher

De Gruyter

ISBN

0167-8507

Journal WWW

www.degruyter.com/journal/key/MULT/html

Annotation

This study suggests that participants in inter-gender workplace discourse develop a strategy of code-switching to exert power and to negotiate language choice.