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Indexicalities in Code-Switching Practices across Namibian Ethnicities
Language Matters ( IF 0.583 ) Pub Date : 2019-08-21 , DOI: 10.1080/10228195.2019.1607535
Gerald Stell 1
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Abstract

This study addresses the question of how multilectal behaviours can become stylistically functional. It proposes as a case study informal multilectal behaviours in Namibia, where indigenous languages co-exist with English and Afrikaans, the country’s lingua francas. The data involve informal intra-ethnic interactions featuring five Namibian ethnicities. A turn-by- turn analysis seeks to establish whether the participants’ code-switching patterns possess sequential salience and thus stylistic potential. Subsequently, an ethnographic perspective is taken to confirm whether this stylistic potential translates into sociolinguistic indexicalities. The study finds that—apart from white Namibians—the ethnolinguistic groups involved tend to display comparable interactional patterns of convergence/divergence in their code-switching behaviours, suggesting that the participants attach stylistic potential to code-switching. The ethnographic perspective links English to authority/worldliness, native languages to ingroupness, and L2 Afrikaans varieties to “street smart” attributes. Additionally, it shows that specific code-switching patterns are used as balancing acts between these values.



中文翻译:

纳米比亚种族之间的代码转换实践中的索引性

摘要

这项研究解决了多选择行为如何在造型上起作用的问题。它提出了一个案例研究,即纳米比亚的非正式多语言行为,其中土著语言与该国的通用语言英语和南非荷兰语共存。数据涉及五个纳米比亚族裔之间的非正式种族间互动。逐次分析旨在确定参与者的代码转换模式是否具有顺序显着性并因此具有风格潜力。随后,从人种学的角度出发,以确认这种风格潜力是否转化为社会语言的索引性。研究发现,除了白人纳米比亚人以外,所涉及的民族语言群体在代码转换行为中往往表现出可比的融合/分歧交互模式,建议参与者将风格潜力留给代码切换。人种学观点将英语与权威/世俗性联系起来,将母语与群体性联系起来,将二语南非荷兰语品种与“街头智慧”属性联系起来。此外,它表明特定的代码切换模式被用作这些值之间的平衡行为。

更新日期:2019-08-21
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