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Publication details [#53464]

Gafaranga, Joseph. 2010. Medium request: Talking language shift into being. Language in Society 39 (2) : 241–270.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

bilingualism | language shift | monolingualism | repair | request

Language as a subject

French | Kinyarwanda

Place, Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Journal WWW

journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

Exploring language shift on a face-to-face interactional level, this study describes a particular practice, whereby younger members of the Rwandan community in Belgium interactionally request older members to “medium-switch” from Kinyarwanda to French,", thus enacting language shift.