- AutorIn
- Josephine Dzahene-Quarshie
- Sarah Marjie
- Titel
- Negotiating Language Use in Specific Domains Among East African Migrant Students and Workers in Ghana
- Zitierfähige Url:
- https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:15-qucosa2-721372
- Quellenangabe
- Swahili Forum - 27.2020 Herausgeber: Universität Leipzig
Erscheinungsort: Leipzig
Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
Jahrgang: 27
Seiten: 57-81
ISSN: 1614-2373 - Erstveröffentlichung
- 2020
- Abstract (EN)
- This study investigates how migration to Ghana affects the language use and language choice of East African migrant students and workers in specific domains. The study explores strategies employed by these migrants to negotiate challenges encountered during communication in selected linguistic spaces to meet their socioeconomic needs in Ghana. The paper also aims to explore the effect of migration on their language use both in Ghana and their home countries. Specific linguistic spaces considered include residential, work/campus, and market environments. The main findings of the study show that due to the completely different linguistic landscape in Ghana, migration compels East African migrant students and workers to use English or learn Ghanaian local languages, especially, in domains such as their places of residence, work/campus and the market place, rather than their preferred language choice, which would be Kiswahili. Particularly, to negotiate in communicative situations at the market places, they usually have to resort to strategies such as soliciting interpretation assistance from local people and/or using signs and body gestures.
- Freie Schlagwörter (EN)
- migration, language choice, linguistic landscape, East African migrants, Ghana
- Herausgeber (Institution)
- Universität Leipzig
- Version / Begutachtungsstatus
- publizierte Version / Verlagsversion
- URN Qucosa
- urn:nbn:de:bsz:15-qucosa2-721372
- Veröffentlichungsdatum Qucosa
- 14.09.2020
- Dokumenttyp
- Artikel
- Sprache des Dokumentes
- Englisch