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Deumert, Ana. 2013. Xhosa in town (revisited) – space, place and language. International Journal of the Sociology of Language 2013 (222) : 51–71.
Mesthrie, Rajend and Ellen Hurst. 2013. Slang registers, code-switching and restructured urban varieties in South Africa: An analytic overview of tsotsitaals with special reference to the Cape Town variety. Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 28 (1) : 103–130.
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.
Mesthrie, Rajend. 2008. "I've been speaking Tsotsitaal all my life without knowing it": Towards a unified account of tsotsitaals in South Africa. In Meyerhoff, Miriam and Naomi Nagy, eds. Social Lives in Language – Sociolinguistics and multilingual speech communities. Celebrating the work of Gillian Sankoff. (IMPACT: Studies in Language and Society 24). John Benjamins. pp. 95–109.
Saal, E. O. 2005. The persuasive effect of Tsotsitaal in HIV/AIDS material. Communicatio: South African Journal for Communication Theory and Research 31 (2) : 245–272.
Slabbert, Sarah and Carol Myers-Scotton. 1997. The structure of Tsotsitaal and Iscamtho: code switching and in-group identity in South African townships. Linguistics 35 (2) : 317–342.
Slabbert, Sarah. 1995. A re-evaluation of the sociology of Tsotsitaal. In Webb, Victor N., ed. Language in South Africa. An input into language planning for a post-apartheid South Africa. University of Pretoria. pp. 143–163.