Publications

Publication details [#48834]

Dyers, Charlin. 2008. Truncated Multilingualism or Language Shift? An Examination of Language Use in Intimate Domains in a New Non-racial Working Class Township in South Africa. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development 29 (2) : 110–126.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

family conversation | language shift | language use | multilingualism

Language as a subject

English | Languages, South African

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Journal WWW

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

Annotation

This article shows the strong vitality of mother tongue use in intimate fields in a new non-racial working class township in South Africa and enhanced multilingualism becoming the norm in new shared spaces.