Code-Switching in Conversation

Auer Peter

ISBN 10: 0415158311 / ISBN 13: 9780415158312

Published by Taylor & Francis Group, 1998

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pp. 368. Seller Inventory # 182136040

Bibliographic Details

Title: Code-Switching in Conversation

Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group

Publication Date: 1998

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

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Synopsis:

Code Switching, the alternating use of two or more languages ation, has become an increasingly topical and important field of research.
Now available in paperback, Code-Switching in Conversation brings together contributions from a wide variety of sociolinguistics settings in which the phenomenon is observed. It addresses not only the structure and the function, but also the ideological values of such bilingual behaviour. The contributors question many views of code switching on the empirical basis of many European and non European contexts. By bringing together linguistics, anthropological and socio-psychological research, they move towards a more realistic conception of bilingual conversation action.

Review:

This innovative, fascinating and highly coherent collection of papers is a major contribution to code-switching research and should be of interest to readers in a wide range of disciplines, particularly linguists, anthropologists and social psychologists.
–ABES, Temple University

...the first systematic comparative treatment of the communicative import of code switching.
–John Gumperz, University of California, Berkeley