Study funded by AHRC
In order to compare language attitudes and reported language use expressed in interviews with actual language choices, I use the broad theoretical framework of Communication Accommodation Theory (CAT) (Giles, 2016) as this provides scope to explore how/whether participants changed the way they spoke (either using another language entirely or modifying features of the same language) to accommodate their interlocuter.
For children growing up speaking the majority language of a country, there is often no question about what language will be used when they start school. This, however, is not the case for 40% of children all over the world, who are confronted with a completely foreign language when they go to school for the first time (UNESCO 2016).
An investigation of three discourse markers in Mauritian Creole
Language in Mauritius' public spaces.