Constructing membership in the in-group: Affiliation and resistance among urban Tanzanians

Pragmatics

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 49-70

  Higgins, Christina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

Codeswitching; Ethnicity; Membership categorization; Swahili

Indexed keywords

EID: 34249911727     PISSN: 10182101     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1075/prag.17.1.05hig     Document Type: Article

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