Author : Carol M. Eastman
Release : 1992
Genre : Language Arts & Disciplines
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 679/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Codeswitching by : Carol M. Eastman
Download or read book Codeswitching written by Carol M. Eastman. This book was released on 1992. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.