Situating language rights: English and Swahili in Tanzania revisited

Journal of Sociolinguistics

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 390-417

  Blommaert, Jan ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

English; Ethnography; Indexicality; Linguistic rights; Swahili; Tanzania

Indexed keywords

EID: 27944495202     PISSN: 13606441     EISSN: 14679841     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1360-6441.2005.00298.x     Document Type: Article

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