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Style, structure and function in Cape Town Tsotsitaal
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 214-223).
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2015
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| author | Hurst, Ellen |
| author2 | Mesthrie, Rajend |
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| description | Includes bibliographical references (leaves 214-223). |
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| institution | University of Cape Town (South Africa) |
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| spelling | oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/10934 Style, structure and function in Cape Town Tsotsitaal Hurst, Ellen Mesthrie, Rajend Linguistics Includes bibliographical references (leaves 214-223). The thesis applies a social constructionist framework and Foucauldian Discourse Analysis to demonstrate that while Tsotsitaal was perceived by many respondents as a language of gangsters and criminals, evidence suggests that it is actually part of an ongoing identity construction for young, black, primarily male urban township residents in South Africa, which is performed through a subcultural style. By applying Myers-Scotton's Matrix Language Frame model to questionnaire and interview data collected in two Cape Town townships, Gugulethu and Khayelitsha, the thesis identifies the syntactic framework of Cape Town Tsotsitaal as Xhosa. 2015-01-02T08:58:41Z 2015-01-02T08:58:41Z 2008 Doctoral Thesis Doctoral PhD http://hdl.handle.net/11427/10934 eng application/pdf Linguistics Faculty of Humanities University of Cape Town |
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| title | Style, structure and function in Cape Town Tsotsitaal |
| title_full | Style, structure and function in Cape Town Tsotsitaal |
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| title_short | Style, structure and function in Cape Town Tsotsitaal |
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| topic | Linguistics |
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