Publications
Publication details [#57625]
Oakes, Leigh. 2013. Beyond diglossia? Language attitudes and identity in Reunion. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development 34 (1) : 30–45. ![DOI logo](https://benjamins.com/logos/doi-logo.svg)
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Language as a subject
Place, Publisher
Routledge
Journal WWW
Annotation
The increased appreciation of Creole in Reunion over the last decade, linked to more positive language attitudes, is mainly due to Creole's capacity to operate as an overt marker of a distinct Reunionese identity that increasingly tries to defend itself today, purporting not so much a more propitious future for the language but rather the next phase of a slow but constant language shift process to French.