Social motivations for codeswitching: evidence from africa
Auteur :
Myers-Scotton
Éditeur :
Oxford University Press
ISBN :
9780198239239
Date de publication :
17 août 1995
Dimensions :
23,4 x 15,5 x 1,3 cm
Poids :
334 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Grande Bretagne
This book deals with codeswitching - the use of two or more different languages in the same conversation. Using data from multilingual African contexts, Carol Myers-Scotton advances an original theory applicable to any society: speakers change languages in order to negotiate a change in the tenor of the conversation, conveying warmth or anger, solidarity or power, by their linguistic choices.