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Publication details [#48600]

Davies, Eirlys E. and Abdelâli Bentahila. 2008. Code switching as a poetic device: Examples from rai lyrics. Language & Communication 28 (1) : 1–20.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

aesthetics | code-switching | muslim | rhetoric | song

Language as a subject

Arabic | French

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/

Annotation

This article explores the functions of code-switching between colloquial Arabic and French in rai lyrics, popular in Algeria and Morocco. It is shown that code-switching is skilfully used to contribute to the lyrics' rhetorical and aesthetic effect.