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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Matrix Language Frame model"”.
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The use of Iscamtho by children in white city-Jabavu, Soweto: slang and language contact in an African urban context
The work presented in this thesis relies on language recordings gathered during thirty months of fieldwork in White City-Jabavu, Soweto. The data was collected from children between the ages of two and nine, following anthropological participant observation, and through the use of an audio …
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Style, structure and function in Cape Town Tsotsitaal
The thesis applies a social constructionist framework and Foucauldian Discourse Analysis to demonstrate that while Tsotsitaal was perceived by many respondents as a language of gangsters and criminals, evidence suggests that it is actually part of an ongoing identity construction for young, black, …
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Code-switching, Structural change and Convergence: A study of Sesotho in contact with English in Lesotho
… and analyses them using Myers-Scotton’s (1993) Matrix Language Frame model and Myers-Scotton and Jake’s (2000) 4-M model. Second, it applies the ML turnover in order to detect convergence in Sesotho-English code-switching data and to observe which direction it takes. The study also explores …
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An analysis of code switching in the Namibian parliament
… was further interpreted using Myers-Scotton’s Matrix Language Frame Model (MLF) and the Markedness Model (MM). Although English is the official language in Namibia, the parliamentarians still make use of other languages in the parliamentary discourse which leads to code switching. Code …
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A comparative study of the Morphosyntaz and Phonetics of Town Bemba and Standard Bemba of the Copperbelt Zambia
… been fuzzy in its descriptions, as no specific framework has been used in characterising the language variety. TB has been regarded as an urban variety spoken in the townships of the Copperbelt province, Zambia. It had also been perceived as a 'secret language' or 'mixed jargon' used by male …
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On the issues of language contact and language shift in Tok Pisin - focusing on two "non-standard" varieties: highlands pidgin and anglicised pidgin.
Tok Pisin is the most prevailing common language in Papua New Guinea. It was originally an English lexifier pidgin language and has developed as the virtual universal lingua franca in this multilingual country where over 850 indigenous languages are spoken today (Nekitel 1998). The term Tok Pisin …
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"I can speak German - und Deutsch" : the development and use of code-switching among simultaneous and successive English-German bilingual children
… basic concepts about bilingualism and bilingual language acquisition, followed by an introduction to various approaches to the study of code-switching. After a brief overview over its history, code-switching is identified as one out of several language contact phenomena. The introduction to the …