Between The Languages Code Switching In Bilingual Communication

Author : Anastasia Schmidt
Publisher : Anchor Academic Publishing (aap_verlag)
Page : 133 pages
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Release : 2014-04-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783954892495

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Between The Languages: Code-Switching in Bilingual Communication by Anastasia Schmidt Pdf

This book is about the use of two languages in everyday life. Bilingualism is a facet of nearly every country in the world and code-switching is a widespread characteristic of bilingual speech. An obvious and at the same time interesting aspect is that bilinguals will, of course, stay within one language when talking to monolinguals. However, when talking to other bilinguals, they will probably use both languages. Thus, in bilingual conversations, they often switch from one language to another and frequently even within an utterance. Such kinds of switches call for a special competence of the two languages involved. But how well the bilinguals have to know each of the languages is a justifiable question. These switches are not arbitrary since they may depend on the situation of the conversation, the topic of the conversation, the emotional aspects involved, the language preference of the speaker and the need to express the own identity. The goal of this book is to look in detail at code-switching in bilingual communication with the help of the present study on Russian-German bilinguals.

Author : Anastasia Deibert
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 136 pages
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Release : 2014-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3656569703

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Code-switching in Bilingual Communication by Anastasia Deibert Pdf

Thesis (M.A.) from the year 2010 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 1, University of Stuttgart (Institut fur Linguistik), course: English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, language: English, abstract: This thesis is about the use of two languages in everyday life. Bilingualism is a facet of nearly every country in the world and code-switching is a widespread characteristic of bilingual speech. Today, bilingualism and code-switching research constitute a great area in linguistics. An obvious and at the same time interesting aspect is that bilinguals will, of course, stay within one language when talking to monolinguals. However, when talking to other bilinguals, they will probably use both languages. Thus, in bilingual conversations, they often switch from one language to another and frequently even within an utterance. The following example shows how a code-switched sentence looks like. (1)Es ist schon interessant ., dass wir so reden. It's really interesting how we're talking like that. I don't even notice that we're talking like that. Such kinds of switches call for a special competence of the two languages involved. But how well the bilinguals have to know each of the languages is a justifiable question. These switches are not arbitrary since they may depend on the situation of the conversation, the topic of the conversation, the emotional aspects involved, the language preference of the speaker and the need to express the own identity. Bilingualism and especially code-switching were long considered as "a sign of linguistic decay" (Appel & Muysken 1987: 117). It was claimed that bilinguals are not able to acquire two languages properly and language mixing was often considered ungrammatical. However, both negative and positive views on the consequences of bilingualism have been studied and many studies showed positive evidence on bilingualism and code-switching. In recent y

Author : Peter Auer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2013-07-04
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781134606733

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Code-Switching in Conversation by Peter Auer Pdf

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 many views of code switching on the empirical basis of many European and non European contexts. By bringing together linguistics, anthropological and socio-psychological research, they move towards a more realistic conception of bilingual conversation action.

Author : Thuy Nguyen
Publisher : Anchor Academic Publishing (aap_verlag)
Page : 65 pages
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Release : 2014-04-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783954892709

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Code Switching: A Sociolinguistic Perspective by Thuy Nguyen Pdf

Nowadays the alternation between two languages which is known as code-switching is rather the norm than exception in many communities due to the fact that there are nearly seven thousand languages spoken throughout the world and more than half of the worlds' population is estimated to be bilingual and engages in code-switching. Code-switching remains one of the central issues in bilingualism research. For a long time, code-switching has been considered as a lack of linguistic competence since it was taken as evidence that bilinguals are not able to acquire two languages or keep them apart properly. Nowadays it is the common belief that code-switching is grammatically structured and systematic and therefore can no longer be regarded as deficient language behaviour.The purpose of this essay is to explore the question why bilingual speakers engage in code-switching based on selected theories from a sociolinguistic perspective which looks beyond the formal aspects and concentrates on the social, pragmatic and cultural functions that code-switching may have.

Author : Katja F. Cantone
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2007-03-21
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781402057847

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Code-switching in Bilingual Children by Katja F. Cantone Pdf

This volume demonstrates that mixed utterances in young bilinguals can be analyzed in the same way as adult code-switching. It provides new insights not only in the field of code-switching and of language mixing in young bilinguals, but also in issues concerning general questions on linguistic theory which are difficult to be answered with monolingual data.

Author : Anastasia Schmidt
Publisher : diplom.de
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2014-04-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783954897490

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Between The Languages: Code-Switching in bilingual communication by Anastasia Schmidt Pdf

This book is about the use of two languages in everyday life. Bilingualism is a facet of nearly every country in the world and code-switching is a widespread characteristic of bilingual speech. An obvious and at the same time interesting aspect is that bilinguals will, of course, stay within one language when talking to monolinguals. However, when talking to other bilinguals, they will probably use both languages. Thus, in bilingual conversations, they often switch from one language to another and frequently even within an utterance. Such kinds of switches call for a special competence of the two languages involved. But how well the bilinguals have to know each of the languages is a justifiable question. These switches are not arbitrary since they may depend on the situation of the conversation, the topic of the conversation, the emotional aspects involved, the language preference of the speaker and the need to express the own identity. The goal of this book is to look in detail at code-switching in bilingual communication with the help of the present study on Russian-German bilinguals.

Author : Heidi Veldtrup
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2013-03-18
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9783656393436

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Functions of Code-Switching in Bilingual Conversations by Heidi Veldtrup Pdf

Seminar paper from the year 2010 in the subject Didactics for the subject English - Pedagogy, Literature Studies, grade: 1,3, University of Hamburg (Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik), course: Advanced Integrated Skills, language: English, abstract: Diese Hausarbeit analysiert beispielhaft eine Konversation von drei Menschen, die sich bilingual unterhalten (deutsch-englisch). Dabei wird näher auf die Funktionen eines Code-switches (d.h. der Wechsel der Sprachen innerhalb einer Konversation) eingegangen. Die Analyse erfolgte mithilfe einer transkribierten Tonaufnahme und eines Fragebogens. This paper takes a closer look at the functions of code-switching during a bilingual conversation with three participants. This conversation was recorded, transcribed and then used for this short analysis.

Author : Rena Torres Cacoullos,Catherine E. Travis
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2018-03-08
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781108415828

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Bilingualism in the Community by Rena Torres Cacoullos,Catherine E. Travis Pdf

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

Author : Barbara E. Bullock,Almeida Jacqueline Toribio
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2012-04-26
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1107605415

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The Cambridge Handbook of Linguistic Code-switching by Barbara E. Bullock,Almeida Jacqueline Toribio Pdf

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 examine the linguistic, social and cognitive implications of code-switching in up-to-date and accessible survey chapters. The Cambridge Handbook of Linguistic Code-switching will serve as a vital resource for advanced undergraduate and graduate students, as a wide-ranging overview for linguists, psychologists and speech scientists and as an informative guide for educators interested in bilingual speech practices.

Author : Irma Olmedo-Williams
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Bilingualism
ISBN : UCR:31210004488753

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Functions of Code-switching in a Spanish/English Bilingual Classroom by Irma Olmedo-Williams Pdf

Author : Laura Callahan
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027241384

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Spanish/English Codeswitching in a Written Corpus by Laura Callahan Pdf

Spanish/English codeswitching in published work represents a claim to the right to participate in the marketplace on a bilingual and not just monolingual basis. This book offers a syntactic and sociolinguistic analysis of the codeswitching in a corpus of thirty texts: novels and short stories published in the United States by twenty-four authors between 1970-2000. An application of the Matrix Language Frame model shows that written codeswitching follows for the most part the same syntactic patterns as its spoken counterpart. The reasons why some written codeswitching is considered to be artificial or inauthentic are examined. An overview of written codeswitching research is given, including titles of many texts in addition to the corpus that contain codeswitching between diverse languages. The book concludes with a look at how codeswitching is used by writers to attain their objectives, and what the implications may be for the relative positions of Spanish, English, and Spanish/English codeswitching in the United States.

Author : Juliane House,Jochen Rehbein
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1588115895

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Multilingual Communication by Juliane House,Jochen Rehbein Pdf

In a world of increasing migration and technological progress, multilingual communication has become the rule rather than the exception. This book reflects the growing interest in understanding communication between members of different linguistic groups and contains a collection of original papers by members of the German Science Foundation's research center on multilingualism at Hamburg University and by international experts, offering an overview of the most important research fields in multilingual communication. The book is divided into four sections dealing with interpreting and translation, code-switching in various institutional contexts, two important strands of multilingual communication: rapport and politeness, and contrastive studies of Japanese and German grammar and discourse. The editor's preface presents the relevant theoretical and methodological background to the issues discussed in this book and points to useful directions for future research.

Author : Thuy Nguyen
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 63 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2009-03-27
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9783640299492

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The Sociolinguistic Dimension of Code Switching by Thuy Nguyen Pdf

Examination Thesis from the year 2008 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 1,3, University of Duisburg-Essen, language: English, abstract: According to the World Atlas of Language Structure there are nearly seven thousand languages spoken throughout the world and more than half of the worlds’ population is estimated to be bilingual and engages in code switching. Due to such statistics it becomes obvious that nowadays the alternation between two languages is rather the norm than exception in many communities. However, the fact that bilingualism is so widespread is not the only reason why there has been and still is such an interest in this phenomenon as a research topic. The question arises why the study of language behaviour over and over remains an interesting subject in linguistic research.

Author : Lesley Milroy,Pieter Muysken
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1995-08-17
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0521479126

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One Speaker, Two Languages by Lesley Milroy,Pieter Muysken Pdf

Code-switching - the alternating use of several languages by bilingual speakers - does not usually indicate lack of competence on the part of the speaker in any of the languages concerned, but results from complex bilingual skills. The reasons why people switch their codes are as varied as the directions from which linguists approach this issue, and raise many sociological, psychological, and grammatical questions. This volume of essays by leading scholars brings together the main strands of current research in four major areas: the policy implications of code-switching in specific institutional and community settings; the perspective of social theory on code-switching as a form of speech behaviour in particular social contexts; the grammatical analysis of code-switching, including the factors that constrain switching even within a sentence; and the implications of code-switching in bilingual processing and development.

Author : Mark Sebba,Shahrzad Mahootian,Carla Jonsson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2012-05-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781136486203

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Language Mixing and Code-Switching in Writing by Mark Sebba,Shahrzad Mahootian,Carla Jonsson Pdf

"Code-switching," or the alternation of languages by bilinguals, has attracted an enormous amount of attention from researchers. However, most research has focused on spoken language, and the resultant theoretical frameworks have been based on spoken code-switching. This volume presents a collection of new work on the alternation of languages in written form. Written language alternation has existed since ancient times. It is present today in a great deal of traditional media, and also exists in newer, less regulated forms such as email, SMS messages, and blogs. Chapters in this volume cover both historical and contemporary language-mixing practices in a large range of language pairs and multilingual communities. The research collected here explores diverse approaches, including corpus linguistics, Critical Discourse Analysis, literacy studies, ethnography, and analyses of the visual/textual aspects of written data. Each chapter, based on empirical research of multilingual writing, presents methodological approaches as models for other researchers. New perspectives developed in this book include: analysis specific to written, rather than spoken, discourse; approaches from the new literacy studies, treating mixed-language literacy from a practice perspective; a focus on both "traditional" and "new" media types; and the semiotics of both text and the visual environment.