Truncated multilingualism or language shift? an examination of language use in intimate domains in a new non-racial working class township in South Africa

Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 110-126

  Dyers, Charlyn ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WESTERN CAPE   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Domains; Marginalisation; Multilingualism; South Africa; Space

Indexed keywords

EID: 57749139372     PISSN: 01434632     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2167/jmmd533.0     Document Type: Article

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