TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gerald Stell
PY  - 2021
CY  - Berlin, Germany
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
TI  - Ethnicity and Language Variation
T2  - Grammar and Code-switching in the Afrikaans Speech Community
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1108382
N2  - This book discusses the linguistic reflection of ethnicity using as an illustration informal speech patterns in the bi-ethnic Afrikaans speech community. Its theoretical outlook is based on variationist studies and discourse studies on the processes shaping ethnicity. Two areas of language variation come into focus, namely Afrikaans morphosyntax and Afrikaans-English code-switching. Coloured and White speech norms are quantitatively reconstructed on the basis of a corpus of informal speech. This forms the point of departure for a qualitative reconstruction of strategies of ethnic identity negotiation. It is shown that quantifiable trends of linguistic convergence are not incompatible with enduring ethnic differentiation in speech norms.
KW  - Sociolinguistics, Grammatical variation, South Africa, Namibia
LA  - English
ER  -