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Publication details [#35795]

Blommaert, Jan. 1992. Codeswitching and the exclusivity of social identities: Some data from Campus Kiswahili. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development 13 (1/2) : 57–70.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

code-switching | historical explanation | identity negotiation | sociolect | university

Language as a subject

English | Kiswahili

Place, Publisher

Multilingual Matters

ISBN

0143-4632

Journal WWW

www.multilingual-matters.com/multi/onlinej.asp

Annotation

This paper deals with the macro-dimension of codeswitching observed in Campus Kiswahili, distinguishable from other Swahili variants with English interference, and with the speakers' exclusive identity construction given the specific Tanzanian sociohistoric background.