UID:
almafu_9960119257002883
Format:
1 online resource (xiii, 365 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
0-511-62086-1
Content:
Code-switching - the alternating use of several languages by bilingual speakers - does not usually indicate lack of competence on the part of the speaker in any of the languages concerned, but results from complex bilingual skills. The reasons why people switch their codes are as varied as the directions from which linguists approach this issue, and raise many sociological, psychological, and grammatical questions. This volume of essays by leading scholars brings together the main strands of current research in four major areas: the policy implications of code-switching in specific institutional and community settings; the perspective of social theory on code-switching as a form of speech behaviour in particular social contexts; the grammatical analysis of code-switching, including the factors that constrain switching even within a sentence; and the implications of code-switching in bilingual processing and development.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
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Cover -- Frontmatter -- Contents -- Notes on contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: code-switching and bilingualism research -- Code-switching in institutional and community settings -- Bilingual speech of migrant people -- Code-switching in the context of dialect/standard language relations -- Code-switching in community, regional and national repertoires: the myth of the discreteness of linguistic systems -- Code-switching in the classroom: two decades of research -- Code-switching and social life -- The pragmatics of code-switching: a sequential approach -- A social network approach to code-switching: the example of a bilingual community in Britain -- Code-switching and the politics of language -- Grammatical constraints on code-switching -- Code-switching and grammatical theory -- Patterns of language mixture: nominal structure in Wolof-French and Fongbe-French bilingual discourse -- A lexically based model of code-switching -- Code-switching in bilingual development and processing -- A psycholinguistic approach to code-switching: the recognition of guest words by bilinguals -- Code-switching in bilingual first language acquisition -- The code-switching behaviour of adults with language disorders - with special reference to aphasia and dementia -- Conclusion: code-switching research as a theoretical challenge -- Index.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-521-47912-6
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-521-47350-0
Language:
English
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511620867
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