Case Study on Trilingual Siblings' Code Switching : Focus on Minority Language Development

Nielbock-yoon, Jaewon

ISBN 10: 363173591X / ISBN 13: 9783631735916

Published by Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, 2017

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Case Study on Trilingual Siblings' Code Switching : Focus on Minority Language Development
• Publisher: Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
• Publication Date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 363173591X
• ISBN 13: 9783631735916
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

This book explores simultaneous trilingual siblings’ code switching behavior focusing on their minority language development combined with a thorough examination of their minority language speaking parent’s input. It explores their complex discourse in relationship to the key input, the minority language speaking parent’s responses to the children’s mixed utterances. This social-interactional and context-based perspective approach sheds new light on the fascinating facet of children’s language manipulating ability. The book describes how the siblings build up a systematic method of inserting non-Korean words into the Korean language structure and argues code switching is an organic building block in a child’s multilingual system and provides a picture of its developmental process.

About the Author

Jaewon Nielbock-Yoon studied in Korea, the USA and gained her PhD at the University of Cologne, Germany. Her principal areas of interest are childhood multilingualism, intercultural communication, and language teaching methodology. She is currently an intercultural consultant and lecturer.