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Gang violence is very widespread in Cape Town. This paper shows that when gang members talk about their feats, they switch to their victims' variety of English in order to construct their social identities.
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This page is a summary of: Identity construction through phonetic crossing among young Capetonian gang members, Sociolinguistic Studies, December 2015, Equinox Publishing,
DOI: 10.1558/sols.v10i1-2.27930.
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