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Publication details [#59070]

Mugari, Victor. 2014. Code-switching in Zimbabwean urban grooves music. Language Matters: Studies in the Languages of Africa 45 (2) : 224–236.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

audience design | code-switching | genre | language choice | song

Language as a subject

Languages, Zimbabwean

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Annotation

This paper explores (functions of) premeditated code-switching as displayed in Zimbabwean urban grooves music, asserting that it constitutes both a music and a linguistic style and a language choice.