Multilingual codeswitching in quebec rap: Poetry, pragmatics and performativity

International Journal of Multilingualism

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 173-192

  Sarkar, Mela ^a   Winer, Lise ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Codemixing; Codeswitching; Lyrics; Multilingualism; Quebec; Rap

Indexed keywords

EID: 34848879551     PISSN: 14790718     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2167/ijm030.0     Document Type: Article

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