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Publication details [#35167]

Rampton, M.B.H. 1991. Interracial Panjabi in a British adolescent peer group. Language in Society 20 (3) : 391–422.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

adolescent | code-switching | ethnicity | ethnography of speaking | peer group

Language as a subject

English, British | Panjabi

Place, Publisher

Cambridge University Press

ISBN

0047-4045

Journal WWW

journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

This paper on multiracial youth culture explores the significance of the use of Panjabi by black and white British adolescents in a mixed peer group. The use of Panjabi seems important in managing divisions and extending horizons beyond local experience.