Publications

Publication details [#40820]

Stroud, Christopher. 2004. The performativity of codeswitching. International Journal of Bilingualism 8 (2) : 145–166.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

code-switching | discourse | economics | language and culture | performativity

Place, Publisher

Kingston Press

Journal WWW

journals.sagepub.com/home/ijb

Annotation

This article, drawing on conversational data from informal meetings between women comerciantes in postcolonial Mozambique, considers codeswitching as a form of socioculturally informed discourse, mediating speakers' responses to social, economic, cultural, and symbolic capital.