Talk and play as interactions among bilingual children in Beacon Valley, Mitchell�s Plain
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Date
2022
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University of the Western Cape
Abstract
This study investigates talk and play as interactions in a �small context� among so-called coloured bilingual children and their interactions amongst themselves in the community of Beacon Valley (Mitchell�s Plain). One of the few communities to emerge from apartheid�s ruins, Beacon Valley, as a community, has given shape to bilingual children�s identities, i.e the way they talk and play as a result of bilingual (English, Afrikaans) contact through individual interactions.This study builds on the pioneering interactional study of Marjorie Goodwin�s �He-Said-She- Said: Talk as Social Organization Among Black Children �(1990), which focussed on a selected group of bilingual children and particularly on peer-to-peer interaction.
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Magister Artium - MA
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Bilingualism, Identity, Race, Mitchell�s Plain, Children