Year: 1994
Type: book
Abstract: In this note I w ill briefly give a global indication o f the work in p rogress in the field of code-switching, and I refer the reader to the series o f proceedings of the ESF Network on C ode-Sw itching and Language Contact for a more detaild perspective.I w ill focus on the lim ited area o f my expertise in this large and interdiscipli nary domain: the grammatical analysis o f intra-sentential codesw itch in g.The paper becomes progressively narrower in scope.S ectio n 1 briefly outlines some o f the factors that help shape the patters o f code-switching in individual communities.Section 2 fo c u sse s on som e o f the parameters that can be identified in the gram m atical typology o f code-switching, and section 3 evaluates th e m erits o f my own approach to the phenomenon (with som e b ia s, I am sure), in terms of the notion o f goverment.C ode-sw itchin g in general is a key process in present-day lin g u istic behaviour, speaking generally, for the sim ple reason that b ilin g u a l communicative settings are becoming more and more w id e-spread .There is a general tendency, in language and culture, tow ards globalization -in terms o f movement of goods, persons, and ab ove all, information-at the same time as towards fragmen tation -affirm ation o f identities, at the ethnics, regional and gen erational lev el.The work on the grammatical dimensions o f cod e sw itch in g has gone through-several stages.In a first stage there w ere a number o f separate observations; then from the early eig h ties onwards, people tried to come up with uuiversalist postu la tes.A s the data became more varied, after 1986, there were a
Author: Pieter Muysken
Language: English
Subfield: Linguistics and Language
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W1608344607