Publications

Publication details [#66357]

Cornips, Leonie and Vincent de Rooij. 2019. Katanga Swahili and Heerlen Dutch: A sociohistorical and linguistic comparison of contact varieties in mining regions. International Journal of the Sociology of Language 2019 (258) : 35–70.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

language contact | language variety | profession | sociolinguistics

Language as a subject

Dutch | Swahili

Place, Publisher

De Gruyter

Journal WWW

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

Annotation

This paper compares sociolinguistic and structural outcomes of language contact processes in two mining areas on two distinct continents, viz. the Katanga region in the southeast of what is now the DR Congo, Africa and Heerlen as centre of the former Eastern Mine District in the southeastern province of Limburg in the Netherlands, Europe.