The Cambridge Handbook of Linguistic Code-Switching

by Almeida Jacqueline Toribio and Barbara E. Bullock

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1107605415
• ISBN13: 9781107605411
• Release Date: April 2012
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 436 Pages
• Weight: 1.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.8" x 9.7"