Bilingual Conversation

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Bilingual Conversation is written by Peter Auer and published by John Benjamins Publishing. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 9027225419 (ISBN 10) and 9789027225412 (ISBN 13).

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.