Social Motivations for Codeswitching: Evidence from Africa
by Myers-Scotton, Carol
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 019823905X
- ISBN 13
- 9780198239055
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About This Item
Oxford University Press, 1993. 1st printing. Crisp and unmarked. Full cloth binding. 177pp. Dust jacket now in a new mylar cover. (Oxford Studies in Language Contact) This 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.. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 4to - over 9" - 12" Tall.
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- Turn-The-Page Books (US)
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- Title
- Social Motivations for Codeswitching: Evidence from Africa
- Author
- Myers-Scotton, Carol
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 019823905X
- ISBN 13
- 9780198239055
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Place of Publication
- Oxford
- Date Published
- 1993
- Size
- 4to - over 9" - 12" Ta
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