Sociolinguistics and modes of social class signalling: African perspectives

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2020

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Wiley-Blackwell

Abstract

The paper evaluates spatial, behavioural, and material signal-ling of social class in African contexts, focusing on Kenya and Zambia. In particular, it draws on notions of mode of class signalling and intersectionality and a vignette of an interaction between urban-based Western educated develop-ment agents and local participants in rural Kenya to illustrate how social class is implicated in interactions.

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Africa, Inequalities, Marginalization, Social structure, Kenya

Citation

Banda, F. (2020). Sociolinguistics and modes of social class signalling: African perspectives. Journal of Sociolinguistics.24(1), . 3-15. Doi: 10.1111/josl.12409