Bilingualism in the Community
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Bilingualism in the Community

Code-switching and Grammars in Contact

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Bilingualism in the Community

Code-switching and Grammars in Contact

About this book

Does the use of two languages by bilinguals inevitably bring about grammatical change? Does switching between languages serve as a catalyst in such change? It is widely held that linguistic code-switching inherently promotes grammatical convergence - languages becoming more similar to each other through contact; evidence for this, however, remains elusive. A model of how to study language contact scientifically, Bilingualism in the Community highlights variation patterns in speech, using a new bilingual corpus of English and Spanish spontaneously produced by the same speakers. Putting forward quantitative diagnostics of grammatical similarity, it shows how bilinguals' two languages differ from each other, aligning with their respective monolingual benchmarks. The authors argue that grammatical change through contact is far from a foregone conclusion in bilingual communities, where speakers are adept at keeping their languages together, yet separate. The book is compelling reading for anyone interested in bilingualism and its importance in society.

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Yes, you can access Bilingualism in the Community by Rena Torres Cacoullos,Catherine E. Travis in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Languages & Linguistics & Linguistics. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-title page
  3. Title page
  4. Copyright page
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. List of Figures
  8. List of Tables
  9. Acknowledgments
  10. 1 Language Contact Through the Lens of Variation
  11. 2 The Community Basis of Bilingual Phenomena
  12. 3 Good Data: Capturing Language Use
  13. 4 Characterizing the Bilingual Speaker
  14. 5 Subject Pronoun Expression: Reconsidering the Constraints
  15. 6 Cross-language Comparisons: Reconsidering Language Types
  16. 7 Assessing Change and Continuity
  17. 8 The Most Intimate Contact: The Bilinguals’ Two Languages
  18. 9 Code-switching without Convergence
  19. 10 Code-switching and Priming
  20. 11 Bilingualism in its Linguistic and Social Context
  21. Appendix 1 Transcription Conventions
  22. Appendix 2 Factors Conditioning Subject Expression across Bilingual and Monolingual Varieties
  23. References
  24. Index