Bilingualism in the Community: Code-Switching and Grammars in Contact

ISBN-13: 9781108402415 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 256 str.

Rena Torres Cacoullos; Catherine E. Travis

Opis

Analysis of bilinguals' use of two languages reveals highly adept code-switching: alternating between languages while keeping intact the separate grammars.

Recenzje

'Bilingualism in the Community sets a high standard of variationist studies of contact-induced change and applies a systematic comparative methodology that includes comparing with a previous, monolingual variety and monolingual benchmarks. The book is in general very well written and is recommended to scholars interested in language contact, variation, and the interplay of the two both within and outside the variationist framework.' Maria Khachaturyan, The LINGUIST List

Spis treści

1. Language contact through the lens of variation; 2. The community basis of bilingual phenomena; 3. Good data: Capturing language use; 4. Characterizing the bilingual speaker; 5. Subject pronoun expression: reconsidering the constraints; 6. Cross-language comparisons: foundations for assessing contact-induced change; 7. Assessing change and continuity; 8. The most intimate contact: the bilinguals' two languages; 9. Code-switching without convergence; 10. Code-switching and priming; 11. Bilingualism in its linguistic and social context.