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Publication details [#56230]

Stell, Gerald. 2012. Ethnicity and codeswitching: Ethnic differences in grammatical and pragmatic patterns of codeswitching in the Free State. Pragmatics 22 (3) : 477–499.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

code-switching | contextualization | ethnicity | language variation | pragmatic role

Language as a subject

Afrikaans | English | Sesotho

Place, Publisher

International Pragmatics Association

Journal DOI

10.1075/prag

Annotation

This paper compares three different grammatical and pragmatic code-switching patterns, and tentatively relates them to three distinct South African ethnoracial labels: White, Coloured and Black.