Language and identity--the Afrikaans community in the UK.
The role of language in the identity package of Afrikaans-speaking South African expatriates in the UK is investigated in this paper. A description of the community is provided and the domains of use of their first language identified. The main research problem is the relationship between language and identity in a diasporic community such as this.
In all modes of communication, the percentage of Afrikaans (in a bilingual relation with English) progressively decreased the closer the ties between the interlocutors became. The identification of 73% of all respondents with positive language-related statements correlated with 82% of the group's support for various types of cultural activities involving visiting South Africans.


CONCLUSIONS
The mix of functions pointed to a more complex configuration of bilingual and monolingual domains, with some elements of a heterolocal cultural enclave, in which similar domain types are maintained in parallel, but with differences in actual context of usage.
Kotzé
Ernst
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School of Language, Media and Communication, University of Port Elizabeth, Port Elizabeth, South Africa. ernst.kotze@upe.ac.za
D001290:Attitude; D003469:Culture; D006801:Humans; D007802:Language; D019303:Multilingualism; D012933:Social Identification; D013019:South Africa / Q000208:ethnology; D006113:United Kingdom