Sociolinguistic Studies in Language Contact

Mackey, William F.; Ornstein-Galicia, Jacob L.

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“…Founding fathers of multilingual studies, such as Weinreich (1968) and Mackey and Ornstein (1979), took language in contact to comprise separate linguistic systems alongside social constructs also in contact -such as community and identity. According to Heller (2007:11), structural-functionalism as a body of thought has wrought a significant stronghold on the study of bilingualism, because we became complacent where it concerned 'the development of a discourse regarding the relative advantages or disadvantages of specific forms of bilingualism [multilingualism] for specific groups'.…”

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Youth multilingualism in South Africa’s hip-hop culture: A metapragmatic analysis

Williams

2016

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Williams, Q. (2016). Youth multilingualism in South Africa's hip-hop culture:A metapragmatic analysis. Sociolinguistic Studies, AbstractThis paper describes the practice of youth multilingualism in South Africa's hip-hop culture, in an online social media space and an advertising space. Based on a multi-sited ethnographic fieldwork study of youth multilingual practices, comprising of the following data sets -multilingual interviews, observations, multilingual interactions and performances, documents and online social networking interactions -the paper reports on how young multilingual speakers active in the hip-hop culture of the country talk and write about the intermixing of racial and ethnic speech forms, as well as use registers in the practice of gendered identities. The argument I put forth in the paper is that the examples of youth multilingualism suggest a complex picture of youth multilingual contact in postcolonial South Africa, and one that require a sociocultural linguistic response that accounts for the cultural influence of youth multilingualisms in local hiphop culture. To such an end, I suggest that multilingual policy planning in the country should be readjusted to the complex sociocultural changes we see emerge with youth multilingual practices.

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