Code-switching in conversation : language, interaction and identity

Code-switching in conversation : language, interaction and identity - London ; New York : Routledge, 1998. - viii, 355 p. ; illustrations ;

Included Index.

Introduction : Bilingual conversation revisited / Peter Auer --
From 'switching code' to 'code-switching' : towards a reconceptualisation of communicative codes / Celso Alvarez-Cáccamo --
Code-switching and the notion of code in linguistics : proposals for a dual focus model / Rita Franceschini --
A monolectal view of code-switching : layered code-switching among Zairians in Belgium / Michael Meeuwis and Jan Blommaert --
Discourse connectives in bilingual conversation : the case of an emerging Italian-French mixed code / Cecilia Oesch Serra --
On the transition from code-switching to a mixed code / Yael Maschler --
The 'why' and 'how' questions in the analysis of conversational code-switching / Li Wei --
The conversational dimension in code-switching between Italian and dialect in Sicily / Giovanni Alfonzetti --
Bilingual conversation strategies in Gibraltar / Melissa G. Moyer --
Childen's acquisition of code-switching for power wielding / J.N. Jørgensen --
We, they and identity : sequential versus identity-related explanation in code-switching / Mark Sebba and Tony Wootton --
Language crossing and the redefinition of reality / Ben Rampton --
Perspectives on cultural variability of discourse and some implications for code-switching / Christopher Stroud.

This volume brings together contributions from a wide variety of sociolinguistic settings in which this phenomenon of 'conversational code-switching' is observed.

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Code switching (Linguistics)
Conversation analysis.
Bilingualism.
Discourse analysis.

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