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Social Motivations for Codeswitching: Evidence from Africa: Oxford Studies in Language Contact

Autor Carol Myers-Scotton
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 17 aug 1995
Codeswitching may be broadly defined as the use of two or more linguistic varieties in the same conversation. Using data from multilingual African context, Carol Myers-Scotton advances a theoretical argument which aims at a general explanation of the motivations underlying the phenomenon. She treats codeswitching as a type of skilled performance, not as the 'alternative strategy' of a person who cannot carry on a conversation in the language in which it began. Speakers exploit the socio=psychological values associated with different linguistic varieties in a particular speech community: by switching codes speakers negotiate a change in social distance between themselves and other participants in a conversation. Switching between languages has much in common with making stylistic choices within the same language: it is as if bilingual and multilingual speakers have an additional style at their command when they engage in codeswitching. _
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ISBN-13: 9780198239239
ISBN-10: 0198239238
Pagini: 190
Ilustrații: maps
Dimensiuni: 155 x 234 x 13 mm
Greutate: 0.33 kg
Ediția:Revised
Editura: OUP OXFORD
Colecția OUP Oxford
Seria Oxford Studies in Language Contact

Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

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