A01=Gerald Stell
Afrikaans
Author_Gerald Stell
Category=CFB
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Category=GTM
Category=JBCC
Category=JHB
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Product details
- ISBN 9783631621653
- Weight: 480g
- Dimensions: 148 x 210mm
- Publication Date: 02 Dec 2011
- Publisher: Peter Lang AG
- Publication City/Country: CH
- Product Form: Hardback
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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.
Gerald Stell is a research fellow at the Free University of Brussels (V.U.B./F.W.O.). His thesis focused on language variation in informal spoken Afrikaans. His focus areas include the relationship between ethnicity and language, code-switching, morphosyntactic variation and ethnic varieties of Afrikaans.
