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Code-switching among students at the University of Zululand

Submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree
of B.A. (HONS) in the Department of African Languages at
the University of Zululand, South Africa, 1990 . / The purpose of this research is to investigate why students at
the" University of Zululand code-switch. The research focuses
particularly on environmental and social factors which lead students
to code-switch. It also looks into the functions of code
switching. On the whole it is intended to contribute to the
findings already made on code-switching. Many researchers have
found out that people tend to code switch because it has become a
habit to do so. Such a reason does not sound linguistically convincing
to me. Others claim that people code-switch because they
want to display their 'education' or that they come from urban
areas or townships. This again is not convincing enough since
code-switching is a reality and would seem to come naturally. It
is not something one does when one feels like it is usually
done unconsciously.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:netd.ac.za/oai:union.ndltd.org:uzulu/oai:uzspace.unizulu.ac.za:10530/1360
Date January 1990
CreatorsMqadi, Praxedis Fikile
ContributorsMosisidi, B.P.
PublisherUniversity of Zululand
Source SetsSouth African National ETD Portal
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeThesis
Formatapplication/pdf

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