Codeswitching

• Author(s): Carol M. Eastman,
• Publisher: Multilingual Matters
• Pages: 228
• ISBN_10: 185359167X
  ISBN_13: 9781853591679
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / General , Social Science / Sociology / Urban ,

Description:... The twelve papers featured in this book focus on codeswitching as an urban language-contact phenomenon. Some papers seek to distinguish codeswitching from other contact phenomenon such as borrowing or language mixing, while others look at the effect codeswitching has on one's position in society. The papers discuss such topics as the politics of codeswitching, the role of using more than one language in social identity, attitudes toward multi-language use, and the way codeswitching may occur as a community norm.