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evident in English/Afrikaans codeswitching, as well as arguments for the reasons speakers engage in codeswitching. In terms of social motivations, the study found that English/Afrikaans codeswitching is influenced by situational and contextual factors. Codeswitching is associated with ingroup membership and allows speakers access to simultaneous roles and identities. In addition, codeswitching often signals changes in the tone or topic of a conversation and may be used to fill lexical or pragmatic gaps. Codes may also be switched as a means of expressing emotions, showing deference, and as a means of either accommodating an addressee or putting up a social barrier. The data also showed that, even within a talk show, speakers are able to assign roles and identities and are able to portray concepts of ‘self’ and ‘other’. In addition, the study concluded that codeswitching across English and Afrikaans is governed by a unique set of constraints as a number of constraints regarded as universal do not apply. Thus, speakers engaging in English/Afrikaans codeswitching, even within the context of a live radio talk show, are able to produce what they consider to be valid switches regardless of a number of constraints which would deem them unacceptable. November 2006 4
Declaration I declare that Grammatical Constraints and Motivations for English/Afrikaans Codeswitching: Evidence from a local radio talk show is my own work, that it has not been submitted for any degree or examination in any other university, and that all the sources I have used or quoted have been indicated and acknowledged by complete references. Diane Lesley Bowers November 2006 SIGNED: ……………………… 5
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Declaration<br />
I declare that Grammatical Constraints <strong>and</strong> Motivations <strong>for</strong> English/Afrikaans<br />
Codeswitching: Evidence from a local radio talk show is my own work, that it<br />
has not been submitted <strong>for</strong> any degree or examination in any o<strong>the</strong>r university,<br />
<strong>and</strong> that all <strong>the</strong> sources I have used or quoted have been indicated <strong>and</strong><br />
acknowledged by complete references.<br />
Diane Lesley Bowers November 2006<br />
SIGNED: ………………………<br />
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