Joseph Gafaranga

Bilingualism as Interactional Practices (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

Research on bilingualism and on code-switching in particular has traditionally been geared towards rehabilitating bilingualism and bilingual language use. From being seen as a sign of lack of competence, code-switching is now seen as a sign of high competence in the languages involved. However, this rehabilitation of bilingualism raises an entirely new problem: Where to from here? How can the study of bilingualism continue to be interesting and relevant? In order to overcome the challenges the discipline faces as a result of its own success, here Joseph Gafaranga argues, the notion of bilingualism itself must be redefined. Bilingualism must be seen as consisting of diverse interactional practices and investigated as such. This book details the rehabilitation effort which has been undertaken to get us where we are today, proposes a methodology which can be used in moving forward and illustrates it with three case studies, all the while inviting other researchers to contribute to this new research direction.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. November 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780748675982
• Artikelnr.: 50216470

Autorenporträt

Joseph Gafaranga is Senior Lecturer in the School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences at the University of Edinburgh.

Inhaltsangabe

I: Introduction
II: The Rehabilitation of Code-Switching
III: An Inductive Approach to Bilingualism As Interactional Practices
IV: Language Choice and Speech Representation in Bilingual Interaction
V: Language Choice and Conversational Repair in Bilingual Conversation
VI: Language Choice and Appositive Structures in Written Texts In Rwanda
VII: Summary and Conclusion