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Title
Utata wa kutumia lugha kama Kibainishi cha utambulisho wa mzungumzaji |
Full text
http://ul.qucosa.de/id/qucosa%3A11466; http://ul.qucosa.de/api/qucosa%3A11466/attachment/ATT-0/ |
Date
2011 |
Author(s)
Msanjila, Yohana P. |
Contributor(s)
University of Dar es Salaam; Universität Mainz |
Abstract
This paper discusses the problems caused by the linguistic features used by speakers as the basis of determining their social identity. The concept of identity is broad and closely related with socio-cultural and eco-spheres environment of the speakers. The speaker's identity is determined by employing both social and linguistic features in the overall analysis. The linguistic features include the whole range of language use, from phonetic features to lexical units, syntactic structures and family names. This paper therefore argues that the speaker's linguistic features pose some problems in determining the speaker's identity. The first problem concerns the concepts of language and dialect which are defined differently by different scholars. The second problem refers to multilingual speakers with diversified linguistic competence, and lastly, it has been noted with concern that some speakers use artificial family names which are not from their ethnic origin, hence complicating the process of determining the identity of the speakers. |
Subject(s)
info:eu-repo/classification/ddc/496; ddc:496; Soziale Identität; Sprache; Afrika; Sprachkompetenz; sprachliche Identitätsbildung, Afrika, soziale Identität, Multilingualität; linguistic identity, social identity, Africa, multilingualism |
Language
eng |
Relation
urn:nbn:de:bsz:15-qucosa-94462; qucosa:11600 |
Type of publication
doc-type:article; info:eu-repo/semantics/article; doc-type:Text |
Source
Swahili Forum 18 (2011), S. 87-96 |
Rights
info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
Identifier
urn:nbn:de:bsz:15-qucosa-90552 |
Repository
Dresden - Hochschulschriftenserver
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