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Peer reviewedRampton, Ben – Journal of Sociolinguistics, 1999
Illustrates the impromptu use of German among adolescents in a multilingual school in inner London, where the aesthetics of performance play a significant role in the negotiation of identities and in the repositioning of an official code at school. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Code Switching (Language), Foreign Countries, German
Peer reviewedMurray, Stephen O. – Anthropological Linguistics, 1979
Reports the study of ritual verbal insults among Black men and among gay men. Gives examples of these insults and explains the situations in which such insulting takes place. (PMJ)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adults, Blacks, Communicative Competence (Languages)
