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Publication details [#56421]

Coetzee-Van Rooy, Susan. 2012. Flourishing functional multilingualism: evidence from language repertoires in the Vaal Triangle region. International Journal of the Sociology of Language 218 : 87–119.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

language choice | language shift | language status | language use | multilingualism

Language as a subject

English | Languages, African

Place, Publisher

De Gruyter

Journal WWW

www.degruyter.com/journal/key/IJSL/html

Annotation

This study reveals a pattern of flourishing functional multilingualism in the South African Vaal Triangle region, that is still amplifying through the addition of African languages to the repertoires, whilst he position of English is limited to particular functions.