Publications

Publication details [#58082]

Mesthrie, Rajend and Ellen Hurst. 2013. ‘When you hang out with the guys they keep you in style’: The case for considering style in descriptions of South African tsotsitaals. Language Matters: Studies in the Languages of Africa 44 (1) : 3–20.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

code-mixing | code-switching | slang | style | urban community

Language as a subject

Tsotsitaal

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Annotation

This paper argues that the actual terminology is inapt to describe the combination of performance, lexicon and style related to South African (and especially Cape Town) urban language phenomena called Tsotsitaals.