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000694584 1001_ $$aMyers-Scotton, Carol.
000694584 24510 $$aSocial motivations for codeswitching :$$bevidence from Africa /$$cCarol Myers-Scotton.
000694584 250__ $$a1st pbk. ed.
000694584 260__ $$aOxford :$$bClarendon Press,$$c1995.
000694584 300__ $$a[xii], 177 p. ;$$c24 cm.
000694584 4901_ $$aOxford studies in language contact
000694584 504__ $$aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [155]-165) and index.
000694584 520__ $$aThis is the first book to focus on the social motivations for codeswitching, that is, the use of two or more linguistic varieties in the same conversation. Using data from multilingual African contexts (mostly from conversations studied in Kenya) Carol Myers-Scotton advances a theoretical argument which aims at a general explanation of these motivations. She treats codeswitching as a type of skilled performance, not as the 'alternative strategy' of a person who cannot carry on a conversation in the language in which it began. When engaging in codeswitching, speakers exploit the socio-psychological values which have come to be associated with different linguistic varieties in a specific speech community: the switch codes in order to negotiate a change in social distance between themselves and other participants in the conversation, conveying this negotiation through the choice of a different code. Switching between languages, Professor Myers-Scotton suggests, has a good deal in common with making different stylistic choices within the same language: it is as if bilingual and multilingual speakers have an additional style at their command when they engage in codeswitching between different languages.
000694584 650_0 $$aCode switching (Linguistics)$$zAfrica.
000694584 650_0 $$aSociolinguistics$$zAfrica.
000694584 650_0 $$aMarkedness (Linguistics)
000694584 830_0 $$aOxford studies in language contact.
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