Publications

Publication details [#48872]

Kasanga, Luanga A. 2008. 'Cheap' c'est quoi? Immigrant Teenagers in Quest of Multilingual Competence and Identity. The International Journal of Multilingualism 5 (4) : 333–356.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

identity negotiation | immigrant | multilingualism | teenager

Language as a subject

English | French | Kiswahili

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Annotation

This article explores different coping strategies of immigrant Congolese teenagers to smooth multilingual intragenerational interaction, including code and meaning negotiation, accommodation and crossing.