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Publication details [#57613]

Coetzee-Van Rooy, Susan. 2013. Afrikaans in contact with English: endangered language or case of exceptional bilingualism? International Journal of the Sociology of Language 2013 (224) : 179–207.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

bilingualism | identity negotiation | language contact | language shift | language use

Language as a subject

Afrikaans | English

Place, Publisher

De Gruyter

Journal WWW

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

Annotation

A survey of the language repertoires of an identified Afrikaans population (n = 244) in the Vaal Triangle region, reveals participants' eminent Afrikaans-English bilingualism (and bi-literacy). Whilst English appears to be an important language in the bilingual repertoires, Afrikaans contributes most to participants' identity.