Bilingual conversation / J.C.P. Auer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Auer, Peter, 1954-

Series:

Pragmatics & beyond ; 5:8.

Pragmatics & beyond : an interdisciplinary series of language studies, 0166-6258 ; 5:8

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Code switching (Linguistics).

Conversation.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (124 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., 1984.

Summary:

Code-switching and related phenomena have met with linguists' increasing interest over the last decade. However, much of the research has been restricted to the structural (grammatical) properties of the use of two languages in conversation; scholars who have tried to capture the interactive meaning of switching have often failed to go beyond more or less anecdotal descriptions of individual, particularly striking, cases. The book bridges this gap by providing a coherent, comprehensive and generative model for language alternation, drawing on recent trends and methods in conversational analysis. The empirical basis is the speech of Italian migrant children in Constance, Germany.

Contents:

1. Introduction: language alternation and the study of bilingual conversation

2. Two basic procedures for the production and interpretation of language alternation

2.1. Discourse vs. participant related language alternation

2.2. Transfer vs. code-switching

3. Prototypical local meanings

3.1 Discourse related code-switching

3.1.1. Change of participant constellation

3.1.2. Sequential subordination

3.1.3. Double cohesion

3.2. Participant related code-switching

3.3. Participant related transfer

3.3.1. Time-out transfers

3.3.2. Subsequent same-turn repair (initiation)

3.3.3. Prosodic marking

3.4. Discourse related transfer

4. Polyvalent local meanings

4.1. Between participant and discourse related switching

4.1.1. Defensive code-switching

4.1.2. Directionality of code-switching

4.2. Between transfer and code-switching

4.2.1. III-defined units

4.2.2. Turn-internal code-switching

5. Conclusion

Notes

References

Appendix: transcription conventions.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1-283-35932-4

9786613359322

90-272-7999-3

OCLC:

769342181