Publications

Publication details [#35799]

Heller, Monica. 1992. The politics of codeswitching and language choice. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development 13 (1/2) : 123–142.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

code-switching | ethnicity | language choice | political system

Language as a subject

English | French

Place, Publisher

Multilingual Matters

ISBN

0143-4632

Journal WWW

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

Annotation

Drawing on data on the use of French and English in Canadian Ontario and Quebec, this article examines language choice as a political strategy, and in particular its role in ethnic mobilisation.