TY - JOUR
T1 - We call it "our language"
T2 - A children's Swahili pidgin transforms social and symbolic order on a remote Hillside in up-country Kenya
AU - Gilmore, Perry
PY - 2011/12
Y1 - 2011/12
N2 - This study describes a rare Swahili pidgin created by two five-year-old boys, one American and one African. The discussion examines the linguistic and social factors affecting the "origins, maintenance, change and loss" of their language and the place it created for their friendship. This place, constructed by and through language, both held and projected their new identities, interrupting the harsh hegemony of colonial racism and inequality that surrounded them.
AB - This study describes a rare Swahili pidgin created by two five-year-old boys, one American and one African. The discussion examines the linguistic and social factors affecting the "origins, maintenance, change and loss" of their language and the place it created for their friendship. This place, constructed by and through language, both held and projected their new identities, interrupting the harsh hegemony of colonial racism and inequality that surrounded them.
KW - Child language identity and ideology
KW - Communicative competence
KW - Language origins and invention
KW - Swahili pidgin
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U2 - 10.1111/j.1548-1492.2011.01145.x
DO - 10.1111/j.1548-1492.2011.01145.x
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:83755172798
SN - 0161-7761
VL - 42
SP - 370
EP - 392
JO - Anthropology and Education Quarterly
JF - Anthropology and Education Quarterly
IS - 4
ER -