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Publication details [#52237]

Hartmann, Dietrich and Sabine Zerbian. 2009. Rhoticity in Black South African English - a sociolinguistic study. Southern African Linguistics and Applied Language Studies 27 (2) : 135–148.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

gender | language change | language variety | social status | sociolinguistics

Language as a subject

English, South African, Black

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Annotation

This study explores the sociological dimension of the linguistic phenomenon of rhoticity in Black South African English: evidence is found that both gender and affluence affect to what extent a group constructs a new language variety.