Code-switching in the Afrikaans speech community of South Africa
Marcel Bas
Broschiertes Buch

Code-switching in the Afrikaans speech community of South Africa

Can Afrikaans-English code-switching lead to a language shift to English?

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Code-switching, commonly referred to as language mixing, is the alternating use of two or more languages within one conversational utterance. It typically occurs in bilingual settings and although it can be seen as a free and voluntary use of two languages for a pragmatic or stylistic purpose, Afrikaans-language maintenance groups in South Africa have, for over a century, stigmatised the practice of Afrikaans-English code-switching as a danger to the language's intrinsic value and vitality. More recently, they have feared that in today's increasingly unbalanced South African bilingual situatio...