Code-switching Between Structural and Sociolinguistic Perspectives

Code-switching Between Structural and Sociolinguistic Perspectives
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Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages : 275
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ISBN-10 : 9783110383942
ISBN-13 : 3110383942
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Synopsis Code-switching Between Structural and Sociolinguistic Perspectives by : Gerald Stell

The study of code-switching has been carried out from linguistic, psycholinguistic, and sociolinguistic perspectives, largely in isolation from each other. This volume attempts to unite these three research strands by placing at the centre of the enquiry the role played by social factors in the occurrence, forms, and outcomes of code-switching. The contributions in this volume are divided into three parts: “code-switching between cognition and socio-pragmatics”, “multilingual interaction and identity”, and “code-switching and social structure”. The case studies represent contact settings on five continents and feature languages with diverse linguistic affiliations. They are predictive and descriptive in their research goals and rely on experimental or naturalistic data. But they share the common goal of seeking to explain how social structures, ideologies, and identity impact on the grammatical and conversational features of code-switching and language mixing, and on the emergence of mixed languages. Given its scope, this volume is a significant addition to the empirical and theoretical foundations of the study of code-switching. It is also of relevance to the general debate on the inter-relationships between language and society.

Code-switching Between Structural and Sociolinguistic Perspectives

Code-switching Between Structural and Sociolinguistic Perspectives
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Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages : 328
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ISBN-10 : 9783110346879
ISBN-13 : 3110346877
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Synopsis Code-switching Between Structural and Sociolinguistic Perspectives by : Gerald Stell

The study of code-switching has been carried out from linguistic, psycholinguistic, and sociolinguistic perspectives, largely in isolation from each other. This volume attempts to unite these three research strands by placing at the centre of the enquiry the role played by social factors in the occurrence, forms, and outcomes of code-switching. The contributions in this volume are divided into three parts: “code-switching between cognition and socio-pragmatics”, “multilingual interaction and identity”, and “code-switching and social structure”. The case studies represent contact settings on five continents and feature languages with diverse linguistic affiliations. They are predictive and descriptive in their research goals and rely on experimental or naturalistic data. But they share the common goal of seeking to explain how social structures, ideologies, and identity impact on the grammatical and conversational features of code-switching and language mixing, and on the emergence of mixed languages. Given its scope, this volume is a significant addition to the empirical and theoretical foundations of the study of code-switching. It is also of relevance to the general debate on the inter-relationships between language and society.

Code Switching: A sociolinguistic perspective

Code Switching: A sociolinguistic perspective
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Publisher : diplom.de
Total Pages : 59
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ISBN-10 : 9783954897704
ISBN-13 : 3954897709
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Synopsis Code Switching: A sociolinguistic perspective by : Thuy Nguyen

Nowadays the alternation between two languages which is known as code-switching is rather the norm than exception in many communities due to the fact that there are nearly seven thousand languages spoken throughout the world and more than half of the worlds’ population is estimated to be bilingual and engages in code-switching. Code-switching remains one of the central issues in bilingualism research. For a long time, code-switching has been considered as a lack of linguistic competence since it was taken as evidence that bilinguals are not able to acquire two languages or keep them apart properly. Nowadays it is the common belief that code-switching is grammatically structured and systematic and therefore can no longer be regarded as deficient language behaviour.The purpose of this essay is to explore the question why bilingual speakers engage in code-switching based on selected theories from a sociolinguistic perspective which looks beyond the formal aspects and concentrates on the social, pragmatic and cultural functions that code-switching may have.

Multidisciplinary Approaches to Code Switching

Multidisciplinary Approaches to Code Switching
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Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages : 386
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ISBN-10 : 9789027289285
ISBN-13 : 902728928X
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Synopsis Multidisciplinary Approaches to Code Switching by : Ludmila Isurin

The volume presents a selection of contributions by leading scholars in the field of code-switching. In the past the phenomenon of code-switching was studied within different subfields of linguistics and they all took their own perspectives on code-switching without taking into account findings from other subdisciplines. This book raises a question of a much broader multidisciplinary approach to studying the phenomenon of code-switching; calls for integration of disciplines; and illustrates how frameworks from one subfield can be applied to models in another. The volume includes survey chapters, empirical studies, contributions that use empirical data to test new hypotheses about code-switching, or suggest new approaches and models for the study of code-switching, and chapters that discuss principles and constraints of code-switching, and code-switching vs. transfer. The book is easily accessible to anyone who is interested in the phenomenon of code-switching in bilinguals.

The Cambridge Handbook of Sociolinguistics

The Cambridge Handbook of Sociolinguistics
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 598
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ISBN-10 : 9781139500937
ISBN-13 : 1139500937
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Synopsis The Cambridge Handbook of Sociolinguistics by : Rajend Mesthrie

The most comprehensive overview available, this Handbook is an essential guide to sociolinguistics today. Reflecting the breadth of research in the field, it surveys a range of topics and approaches in the study of language variation and use in society. As well as linguistic perspectives, the handbook includes insights from anthropology, social psychology, the study of discourse and power, conversation analysis, theories of style and styling, language contact and applied sociolinguistics. Language practices seem to have reached new levels since the communications revolution of the late twentieth century. At the same time face-to-face communication is still the main force of language identity, even if social and peer networks of the traditional face-to-face nature are facing stiff competition of the Facebook-to-Facebook sort. The most authoritative guide to the state of the field, this handbook shows that sociolinguistics provides us with the best tools for understanding our unfolding evolution as social beings.

The Cambridge Handbook of Linguistic Code-switching

The Cambridge Handbook of Linguistic Code-switching
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : 1107605415
ISBN-13 : 9781107605411
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Synopsis The Cambridge Handbook of Linguistic Code-switching by : Barbara E. Bullock

Code-switching - the alternating use of two languages in the same stretch of discourse by a bilingual speaker - is a dominant topic in the study of bilingualism and a phenomenon that generates a great deal of pointed discussion in the public domain. This handbook provides the most comprehensive guide to this bilingual phenomenon to date. Drawing on empirical data from a wide range of language pairings, the leading researchers in the study of bilingualism examine the linguistic, social and cognitive implications of code-switching in up-to-date and accessible survey chapters. The Cambridge Handbook of Linguistic Code-switching will serve as a vital resource for advanced undergraduate and graduate students, as a wide-ranging overview for linguists, psychologists and speech scientists and as an informative guide for educators interested in bilingual speech practices.

Bilingual Speech

Bilingual Speech
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 326
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ISBN-10 : 9780521771689
ISBN-13 : 0521771684
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Synopsis Bilingual Speech by : Pieter Muysken

This book provides an in depth analysis of the different ways in which bilingual speakers switch from one language to another in the course of conversation. This phenomenon, known as code-mixing or code-switching, takes many forms. Pieter Muysken adopts a comparative approach to distinguish between the different types of code-mixing, drawing on a wealth of data from bilingual settings throughout the world. His study identifies three fundamental and distinct patterns of mixing - 'insertion', 'alternation' and 'congruent lexicalization' - and sets out to discover whether the choice of a particular mixing strategy depends on the contrasting grammatical properties of the languages involved, the degree of bilingual competence of the speaker or various social factors. The book synthesizes a vast array of recent research in a rapidly growing field of study which has much to reveal about the structure and function of language.

The Oxford Handbook of Sociolinguistics

The Oxford Handbook of Sociolinguistics
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 913
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ISBN-10 : 9780190233747
ISBN-13 : 0190233745
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Synopsis The Oxford Handbook of Sociolinguistics by : Robert Bayley

This major new survey of sociolinguistics identifies gaps in our existing knowledge base and provides directions for future research.

Codeswitching in the Classroom

Codeswitching in the Classroom
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 291
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ISBN-10 : 9781315401089
ISBN-13 : 1315401088
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Synopsis Codeswitching in the Classroom by : Jeff MacSwan

Bringing together sociolinguistic, linguistic, and educational perspectives, this cutting‐edge overview of codeswitching examines language mixing in teaching and learning in bilingual classrooms. As interest in pedagogical applications of bilingual language mixing increases, so too does a need for a thorough discussion of the topic. This volume serves that need by providing an original and wide-ranging discussion of theoretical, pedagogical, and policy‐related issues and obstacles in classroom settings—the pedagogical consequences of codeswitching for teaching and learning of language and content in one‐way and two‐way bilingual classrooms. Part I provides an introduction to (socio)linguistic and pedagogical contributions to scholarship in the field, both historical and contemporary. Part II focuses on codeswitching in teaching and learning, and addresses a range of pedagogical challenges to language mixing in a variety of contexts, such as literacy and mathematics instruction. Part III looks at language ideology and language policy to explore how students navigate educational spaces and negotiate their identities in the face of competing language ideologies and assumptions. This volume breaks new ground and serves as an important contribution on codeswitching for scholars, researchers, and teacher educators of language education, multilingualism, and applied linguistics.

Language Change in Child and Adult Hebrew

Language Change in Child and Adult Hebrew
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 246
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ISBN-10 : 9780195358131
ISBN-13 : 0195358139
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Synopsis Language Change in Child and Adult Hebrew by : Dorit Diskin Ravid

The study of language acquisition has taken on new meaning in the last decade. Now seen as part of the study of other forms of language variation across time and space, such as dialects and sociolects, and the study of pidgins and Creoles, it can help to provide a new understanding of how language evolves and what directs its development. Dorit Ravid here provides a study of contemporary speakers of Hebrew, focusing in particular on inflectional morphology. She traces language development from childhood to adulthood in Hebrew speakers, and explores strategies of language acquisition and language processing leading to variation in the spoken Hebrew of speakers of different ages and socioeconomic backgrounds.