Rena Torres Cacoullos, Catherine E. Travis

Bilingualism in the Community

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Analysis of bilinguals' use of two languages reveals highly adept code-switching: alternating between languages while keeping intact the separate grammars.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 258
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Januar 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 531g
• ISBN-13: 9781108415828
• ISBN-10: 1108415822
• Artikelnr.: 48862063

Autorenporträt

Rena Torres Cacoullos is Professor of Spanish and Linguistics at the Pennsylvania State University and editor-in-chief of Language Variation and Change.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Language contact through the lens of variation
2. The community basis of bilingual phenomena
3. Good data: Capturing language use
4. Characterizing the bilingual speaker
5. Subject pronoun expression: reconsidering the constraints
6. Cross-language comparisons: foundations for assessing contact-induced change
7. Assessing change and continuity
8. The most intimate contact: the bilinguals' two languages
9. Code-switching without convergence
10. Code-switching and priming
11. Bilingualism in its linguistic and social context.