Multidisciplinary Approaches To Code Switching

Author : Ludmila Isurin,Donald Winford,Kees De Bot
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027241788

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Multidisciplinary Approaches to Code Switching by Ludmila Isurin,Donald Winford,Kees De Bot Pdf

The volume presents a selection of contributions by leading scholars in the field of code-switching. In the past the phenomenon of code-switching was studied within different subfields of linguistics and they all took their own perspectives on code-switching without taking into account findings from other subdisciplines. This book raises a question of a much broader multidisciplinary approach to studying the phenomenon of code-switching, calls for integration of disciplines; and illustrates how frameworks from one subfield can be applied to models in another. The volume includes survey chapters, empirical studies, contributions that use empirical data to test new hypotheses about code-switching, or suggest new approaches and models for the study of code-switching, and chapters that discuss principles and constraints of code-switching, and code-switching vs. transfer. The book is easily accessible to anyone who is interested in the phenomenon of code-switching in bilinguals.

Author : Lesley Milroy,Pieter Muysken
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 53,7 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 : Kate Bellamy,Michael W. Child,Paz González,Antje Muntendam,M. Carmen Parafita Couto
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2017-05-31
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027265623

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Multidisciplinary Approaches to Bilingualism in the Hispanic and Lusophone World by Kate Bellamy,Michael W. Child,Paz González,Antje Muntendam,M. Carmen Parafita Couto Pdf

This volume offers a multidisciplinary view of cutting-edge research on bilingualism in Spanish and Portuguese-speaking regions, with the aim of building a bridge between sub-fields and approaches that often find themselves isolated from one another. The thirteen contributions in this volume offer a glimpse of the diversity of bilingualism present in the Hispanic and Lusophone world, shedding light on the sheer variety of speaker communities, language pairings (e.g., Spanish-English, Spanish-Basque, Spanish-Dutch, Portuguese-Spanish-English, Portuguese-English, Spanish-K’ichee Maya, and Spanish-Ixcatec) and speaker types (e.g., simultaneous bilinguals, and early and late sequential bilinguals). The diversity present in this collection of papers, both in empirical coverage and methodological and theoretical approaches, will be of interest to a wide range of students and researchers in bilingualism and Hispanic and Lusophone linguistics.

Author : Jeanine Treffers-Daller,Esther Ruigendijk,Julia Elisabeth Hofweber
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2021-05-03
Category : Science
ISBN : 9782889667178

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Behavioral and Neurophysiological Approaches to Code-Switching and Language Switching by Jeanine Treffers-Daller,Esther Ruigendijk,Julia Elisabeth Hofweber Pdf

Author : Rosa E. Guzzardo Tamargo,Catherine M. Mazak,M. Carmen Parafita Couto
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2016-09-07
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027266675

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Spanish-English Codeswitching in the Caribbean and the US by Rosa E. Guzzardo Tamargo,Catherine M. Mazak,M. Carmen Parafita Couto Pdf

This volume provides a sample of the most recent studies on Spanish-English codeswitching both in the Caribbean and among bilinguals in the United States. In thirteen chapters, it brings together the work of leading scholars representing diverse disciplinary perspectives within linguistics, including psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics, theoretical linguistics, and applied linguistics, as well as various methodological approaches, such as the collection of naturalistic oral and written data, the use of reading comprehension tasks, the elicitation of acceptability judgments, and computational methods. The volume surpasses the limits of different fields in order to enable a rich characterization of the cognitive, linguistic, and socio-pragmatic factors that affect codeswitching, therefore, leading interested students, professors, and researchers to a better understanding of the regularities governing Spanish-English codeswitches, the representation and processing of codeswitches in the bilingual brain, the interaction between bilinguals’ languages and their mutual influence during linguistic expression.

Author : Carolin Schneider
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2023-12-24
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783031464836

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An Ethno-Social Approach to Code Choice in Bilinguals Living with Alzheimer’s by Carolin Schneider Pdf

​This book examines the under-researched field of communication by bilingual people with dementia of the Alzheimer's type (DAT). The aging population is increasingly affected by neurocognitive diseases such as DAT, and over the past 30 years, the growing research body concerned with monolingual DAT discourses has seen significant growth. The findings from monolingual studies and institutional settings highlight the importance of code choice for a person’s sense of autonomy, especially against the background of changing communicational abilities. Adding a new perspective, this book investigates how ten Puerto Rican speakers living with varying stages of DAT draw on their bilingual resources to accomplish verbal interaction in informal settings with their primary care partners. Drawing on narrative interviews conducted in Orlando, Florida, this multi-case study investigates situated language choices and code-switches by applying the ethno-social approach, i.e. combining features of conversation analysis and ethnography of communication. The author sheds light both on the question of how people living with DAT engage in conversations and which strategies they employ in their languages (English and Spanish) to reach their communicative goals. Specifically, by analyzing the role of code choice and code-switching in a qualitative manner, two main functional categories emerge: discourse-related and participant-related code-switching. Bilingual competencies remain even among participants living with severe DAT symptoms, as evident in retained interactional sequences such as salutations. Persons living with DAT competently negotiate code, either through exploratory code-switching or metalinguistic commentary, emphasizing the need for conversational partners to be sensitive to the communicative needs, in both languages, of speakers living with DAT. This book will be of interest to students and researchers working on dementia discourses, health communication, multilingualism and ageing, as well as Bilingual/ Multilingual families or individuals living with dementia.

Author : Gerald Stell,Kofi Yakpo
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2015-02-17
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110346879

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Code-switching Between Structural and Sociolinguistic Perspectives by Gerald Stell,Kofi Yakpo Pdf

The study of code-switching has been carried out from linguistic, psycholinguistic, and sociolinguistic perspectives, largely in isolation from each other. This volume attempts to unite these three research strands by placing at the centre of the enquiry the role played by social factors in the occurrence, forms, and outcomes of code-switching. The contributions in this volume are divided into three parts: “code-switching between cognition and socio-pragmatics”, “multilingual interaction and identity”, and “code-switching and social structure”. The case studies represent contact settings on five continents and feature languages with diverse linguistic affiliations. They are predictive and descriptive in their research goals and rely on experimental or naturalistic data. But they share the common goal of seeking to explain how social structures, ideologies, and identity impact on the grammatical and conversational features of code-switching and language mixing, and on the emergence of mixed languages. Given its scope, this volume is a significant addition to the empirical and theoretical foundations of the study of code-switching. It is also of relevance to the general debate on the inter-relationships between language and society.

Author : Roger Barnard,James McLellan
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2013-12-20
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781783090921

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Codeswitching in University English-Medium Classes by Roger Barnard,James McLellan Pdf

In the complex, multilingual societies of the 21st century, codeswitching is an everyday occurrence, and yet the use of students’ first language in the English language classroom has been consistently discouraged by teachers and educational policy-makers. This volume begins by examining current theoretical work on codeswitching and then proceeds to examine the convergence and divergence between university language teachers’ beliefs about codeswitching and their classroom practice. Each chapter investigates the extent of, and motivations for, codeswitching in one or two particular contexts, and the interactive and pedagogical functions for which alternative languages are used. Many teachers, and policy-makers, in schools as well as universities, may rethink existing ’English-only’ policies in the light of the findings reported in this book.

Author : Monika Reif,Justyna A. Robinson
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-25
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781614514190

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Cognitive Perspectives on Bilingualism by Monika Reif,Justyna A. Robinson Pdf

Only 15 years ago bilingualism was somewhat outside the main debates in cognitive linguistics. Cognitive linguistics had, to a large extent, taken for granted the fact that language is embodied in our experience. However, not much attention was given to questions of whether any changes to our language repertoire alter the way we perceive the world around us. A growing body of recent research suggests that one cannot understand the cognitive foundations of language without looking at bi- and multilingual speakers. In this vein, the present book aims to contribute to the existing debate of the relationship between language, culture and cognition by assessing differences and similarities between monolingual and bilingual language acquisition and use. In particular, it investigates the effect of conceptual-semantic and pragmatic properties of constructions on code choice and code switching, as well as the impact of bilingual and bicultural education on speakers’ cognitive development. This collective volume systematises, reviews, and promotes a range of theoretical perspectives and research techniques that currently inform work across the disciplines of bilingualism and code switching.

Author : Luis López
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2018-10-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027263544

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Code-switching – Experimental Answers to Theoretical Questions by Luis López Pdf

This volume compiles eight original chapters dedicated to different topics within bilingual grammar and processing with special focus on code-switching. Three main features unify the contributions to this volume. First, they focus on making a contribution to our understanding of the human language within a coherent theoretical framework; second, they understand that a complete theory of the human language needs to include data from bilinguals’ I-languages; and third, they are committed to obtaining reliable data following experimental protocols.

Author : Nikolay Hakimov
Publisher : Language Science Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783961103300

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Explaining Russian-German code-mixing by Nikolay Hakimov Pdf

The study of grammatical variation in language mixing has been at the core of research into bilingual language practices. Although various motivations have been proposed in the literature to account for possible mixing patterns, some of them are either controversial, or remain untested. Little is still known about whether and how frequency of use of linguistic elements can contribute to the patterning of bilingual talk. This book is the first to systematically explore the factor usage frequency in a corpus of bilingual speech. The two aims are (i) to describe and analyze the variation in mixing patterns in the speech of Russia German adolescents and young adults in Germany, and (ii) to propose and test usage-based explanations of variation in mixing patterns in three morphosyntactic contexts: the adjective-modified noun phrase, the prepositional phrase, and the plural marking of German noun insertions in bilingual sentences. In these contexts, German noun insertions combine with either Russian or German words and grammatical markers, thus yielding mixed bilingual and German monolingual constituents in otherwise Russian sentences, the latter also labelled as embedded-language islands. The results suggest that the frequency with which words are used together mediates the distribution of mixing patterns in each of the examined contexts. The differing impacts of co-occurrence frequency are attributed to the distributional and semantic specifics of the analyzed morphosyntactic configurations. Lexical frequency has been found to be another important determinant in this variation. Other factors include recency, or lexical priming, in discourse in the case of prepositional phrases, and phonological and structural similarities and differences in the inflectional systems of the contact languages in the case of plural marking.

Author : Jeff MacSwan
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2014-12-05
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780262027892

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Grammatical Theory and Bilingual Codeswitching by Jeff MacSwan Pdf

Part III: Codeswitching and the LF Interface -- 9 The Semantic Interpretation and Syntactic Distribution of Determiner Phrases in Spanish-English Codeswitching -- 10 Codeswitching and the Syntax-Semantics Interface -- Part IV: Codeswitching and Language Processing -- 11 A Minimalist Parsing Model for Codeswitching -- 12 Language Dominance and Codeswitching Asymmetries -- Contributors -- Index

Author : Leigh Fernandez,Kalliopi Katsika,Maialen Iraola Azpiroz,Shanley E.M. Allen
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2021-07-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027259653

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Psycholinguistic Approaches to Production and Comprehension in Bilingual Adults and Children by Leigh Fernandez,Kalliopi Katsika,Maialen Iraola Azpiroz,Shanley E.M. Allen Pdf

How do production and comprehension processes interact in the bilingual brain during language interaction? Most experimental and theoretical research in psycholinguistics to date has focused on investigating the mechanisms that underlie language production and language comprehension separately. Only recently have researchers started emphasizing the importance of reconciling the two modalities into a unified account through the investigation of possible connections between the two systems. Authored by key researchers in psycholinguistics, neuroscience, and language development, this volume encompasses state of the art research on the relation between production and comprehension processes in bilingual children and adults. Articles highlight the most recent methodological approaches, as well as a variety of language pairs and linguistic structures. Indispensable for students and researchers working in the areas of language acquisition and processing, neurolinguistics, and experimental linguistics, this volume will also appeal to educators and clinicians focusing on language development and processing in multilingual children and adults. Originally published as special issue of Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 9:4/5 (2019).

Author : Kelechukwu Ihemere
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2016-10-20
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781474278164

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Codeswitching in Igbo-English Bilingualism by Kelechukwu Ihemere Pdf

Codeswitching occurs when multilingual speakers embed elements of more than one language into the dominant (or Matrix) language within individual utterances of conversation. Codeswitching in Igbo-English Bilingualism explores the syntax of bilingual codeswitching between the Benue-Congo African language of Igbo and English. Within the framework of Myers-Scotton's highly influential Matrix Language Frame (MLF) model, Kelechukwu Ihemere explores the notion of asymmetry in Igbo-English codeswitching, arguing that the two languages do not contribute equally in the creation of mixed utterances. In the abstract interaction between the two grammars, the Matrix language is more activated than the Embedded language, resulting in either monolingual Igbo discourse or discourse with an Igbo morphosyntactic frame but with English insertions. Using both linguistic and quantitative analyses, this book uniquely investigates the governing principles and restrictions on bilingual clauses and grammatical codeswitching in the context of a West African language and English. Providing a detailed descriptive and theoretical investigation of Igbo-English data and a deeper analysis of the MLF model, this book will be of interest to anyone working in the fields of comparative syntax, bilingualism and contact linguistics.

Author : Eve A. Kheir
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2023-02-27
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789004534803

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Codeswitching as an Index and Construct of Sociopolitical Identity by Eve A. Kheir Pdf

This book presents an empirically based examination of language patterns found among the Israeli Druze community, which is profiled against that of the Arabs in Israel. The results document the emergence of a mixed language previously undescribed and provides a socio-political analysis. This study intends thus to make a contribution to the debate on "mixed languages", introducing a model that facilitates the analysis of the link bewteen codeswitching and sociopolitical identity. Special attention is paid to the assessment of language and identity issues of Golan Heights Druze and Israeli Druze, taking into exam two major political debates within these communities, regarding the Israeli Nation-state Law and the so-called ‘Syrian–Israeli secret Golan deal’ speculation.