Study funded by the Cambridge-Africa ALBORADA Research Fund (PIs: Hannah Davidson and Tejshree Auckle, Senior Collaborator: Mooznah Auleear Owodally)
Mauritius is an ethnically diverse African island to the east of Madagascar, where people of African, Indian, Chinese and European origin co-exist.
Ecologies of Creole Multilingualism workshop
Organisation of a hybrid workshop about Creole Multilingualism
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.
Language attitudes towards Telugu
Language in Mauritius' public spaces.