Description
Book SynopsisThe 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. The editor, Carol Eastman, is also author of "Aspects of Language and Culture", "Language Planning", and "Linguistic Theory and Language Description".
Table of Contents1. Carol M. Eastman: Codeswitching as an Urban Language-Contact Phenomenon
CODESWITCHING THEORY AND EXAMPLES: AFRICA
2. Carol Myers-Scotton: Comparing Codeswitching and Borrowing
3. Marjolein Gysels: French in Urban Lubumbashi Swahili: Codeswitching, Borrowing, or Both
4. Jan Blommaert: Codeswitching and the Exclusivity of Social Identities: Some Data from Campus Kiswahili
5. Didier L. Goyvaerts & Tembue Zembele: Codeswitching in Bukavu
5. Leigh Swigart: Two Codes or One? The Insiders' View and the Description of Codeswitching in Dakar
6. Marilyn Merritt, Ailie Cleghorn, Jared 0. Abagi & Grace Bunyi: Socialising Multilingualism: Determinants of Codeswitching in Kenyan Primary Classrooms
CODESWITCHING THEORY AND EXAMPLES: CANADA AND BELGIUM
7. Monica Heller: The Politics of Codeswitching and Language Choice
8. Jeanine Treffers-Daller: French-Dutch Codeswitching in Brussels: Social Factors Explaining Its Disappearance
CODESWITCHING IN CONTEXTS OF LANGUAGE LEARNING, DIALECT SHIFT AND STYLE SHIFT
9. Charles E. DeBose: Codeswitching: Black English and Standard English in the African-American Linguistic Repertoire
10. Susan Meredith Burt: Codeswitching, Convergence and Compliance: The Development of Micro-Community Speech Norms
11. Catherine S. Farris: Chinese Preschool Codeswitching: Mandarin Babytalk and the Voice of Authority
12. Marianne Stolen: Codeswitching for Humour and Ethnic Identity: Written Danish-American Occasional Songs
