Bilingual Conversation

by Peter Auer

Code-switching and related phenomena have met with linguists' increasing interest over the last decade. However, much of the research has been restricted to the structural (grammatical) properties of the use of two languages in conversation; scholars who have tried to capture the interactive meaning of switching have often failed to go beyond more or less anecdotal descriptions of individual, particularly striking, cases. The book bridges this gap...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0915027496
• ISBN13: 9780915027491
• Release Date: January 1984
• Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
• Length: 116 Pages