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Academic biography

Vincent de Rooij holds an MA in Anthropology and a PhD in Linguistics (both at the University of Amsterdam). His PhD dissertation (1996) Cohesion through contrast: Discourse structure in Shaba Swahili/French conversations, based on  fieldwork carried out in Lubumbashi (DR Congo, ex-Zaïre) in 1991 and 1992, shows how codeswitching is involved in creating cohesion in discourse.
From 1996 to 1999, de Rooij carried out a WOTRO post-doc research project titled Linguistic and cultural creolization on the Zairean Copperbelt. He is an assistant-professor at the Dept. of Sociology and Anthropology and a member of the Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research (AISSR) .
In his teaching and research, his primary interest is on the construction of identities through language and on language ideologies.

More information on the index page of de Rooij's personal webfolder