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For most users of these terms, 'we-code ' and 'they-code' refer respectively to the ethnic language of a bilingual community, 1 and the language of the wider society within which that community forms a minority. The opposition of 'we-' versus 'they-' codes thus presupposes a particular relationship between monolingual and bilingual communities, as well as particular types of social relationship within the minority group .
Sebba et al. (Thu,) studied this question.