Choices in language accommodation at the crossroads: convergence, divergence, and mixing
This article seeks to explain a community's unique collective pronunciation of an otherwise shared word form through the lens of indexical field (Silverstein 2003). Three groups of speakers physically converge at an area in south-western Senegal dubbed ‘the crossroads'. Those familiar with...
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Anthropological Society of Oxford
2017
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