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The Development of Metropolitan Languages in Post-Colonial Contexts: Language Contact and Language Change and the Case of Portuguese in Maputo1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 December 2008

Christopher Stroud
Christopher Stroud
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Stockholm University, Centre for Research on Bilingualism, S-106 91 Stockholm, Sweden. Email: Christopher.Stroud@biling.su.se
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Abstract

This article explores briefly some phenomena of potential indigenization of the Portuguese spoken in Mozambique. Data for the study has been taken from work that is currently underway in Maputo, Mozambique, that was originally initiated to investigate contact varieties of Portuguese and to probe their educational implications. Speech samples comprise formal interviews and non-formal encounters from a socio-demographically representative sample of informants. The article first provides an inventory of some non-standard European Portuguese variants that are found in this data, and subsequently focusses upon a discussion of what contribution different linguistic processes make to indigenization, specifically the role played by processes of second language acquisition in a context of massive and diffuse language contact and change. Special attention is also paid to the social contexts in which different manifestations of language contact are found, and the importance of linguistic ideology for the form that language contact takes in particular cases is explored. The article concludes with the suggestion that the salient characteristics of types of non-native speech community such as Maputo require a reconceptualization of models and methods of contact linguistics and second language acquisition, and that this in turn carries implications for the terms of reference and analysis to which indigenization need be related.

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Nordic Journal of Linguistics , Volume 19 , Special Issue 2: Special issue on LANGUAGE CONTACT AND LANGUAGE CHANGE , December 1996 , pp. 183 - 213
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1996

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