Code-Switching in Conversation: Language, Interaction and Identity

by Peter Auer

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415216095
• ISBN13: 9780415216098
• Release Date: July 1999
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 364 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"