{"title":"Editorial","authors":"L. Barnes","doi":"10.1080/10228195.2023.2208451","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"The opening article in this first issue of the year focuses on the two distinct but inextricably intertwined concepts, language and identity. Ernest Nyamekye, Gifty Anani and Getrude Kuttin examine how bilinguals manipulate their linguistic repertoires in different social settings to portray different identities. Their examination focuses on the language choices of university students at the University of Cape Coast in Ghana and how they use language to construct identity in different social settings.","PeriodicalId":43882,"journal":{"name":"Language Matters","volume":"54 1","pages":"1 - 2"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5000,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Language Matters","FirstCategoryId":"98","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10228195.2023.2208451","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS","Score":null,"Total":0}
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The opening article in this first issue of the year focuses on the two distinct but inextricably intertwined concepts, language and identity. Ernest Nyamekye, Gifty Anani and Getrude Kuttin examine how bilinguals manipulate their linguistic repertoires in different social settings to portray different identities. Their examination focuses on the language choices of university students at the University of Cape Coast in Ghana and how they use language to construct identity in different social settings.
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The purpose of Language Matters is to provide a journal of international standing with a unique African flavour focusing on multilingualism in Africa. Although the journal contributes to the language debate on all African languages, sub-Saharan Africa and issues related to multilingualism in the southern African context are the journal’s specific domains. The journal seeks to promote the dissemination of ideas, points of view, teaching strategies and research on different aspects of African languages, providing a forum for discussion on the whole spectrum of language usage and debate in Africa. The journal endorses a multidisciplinary approach to the study of language and welcomes contributions not only from sociolinguists, psycholinguists and the like, but also from educationalists, language practitioners, computer analysts, engineers or scholars with a genuine interest in and contribution to the study of language. All contributions are critically reviewed by at least two referees. Although the general focus remains on multilingualism and related issues, one of the three issues of Language Matters published each year is a special thematic edition on Language Politics in Africa. These special issues embrace a wide spectrum of language matters of current relevance in Southern Africa.
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