Publications

Publication details [#56786]

Sebonde, Rafiki. 2012. Code-switching and social stratification in a rural Chasu community in Tanzania. Language Matters: Studies in the Languages of Africa 43 (1) : 60–76.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

code-switching | intergroup communication | language status | rural community | social stratification

Language as a subject

Chasu | English | Swahili

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Annotation

This study discloses that the socio-economic status of the language employed by the dominant subgroup, and contact level and duration, define the code-switching extent amid rural Tanzanian Chasu speakers of the Same District inTanzania, where Chasu, Swahili and English co-exist.