Jacobson, Rodolfo: Codeswitching Worldwide. II (Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [Tilsm])

This text is a collection of contributions by international scholars on the theoretical and pragmatic aspects of language mixture analysis. This edited volume includes the following chapters: "The Matrix Language Frame Model: Development and Responses" (Carol Myers-Scotton); "Language Alternation: The Third Kind of Codeswitching Mechanism" (Rodolfo Jacobson); "Contrastive Sociolinguistics: Borrowed and Codeswitched Past Participles in Romance-Germanic Language Contact" (Jeanine Treffers-Daller); "Functional Categories and Codeswitching in Japanese/English" (Shoji Azuma); "Linguostatistic Study of Bulgarian in Ukraine" (Ol'ga S. Parfenova); "The Role of Semantic Specificity in Insertional Codeswitching: Evidence from Dutch-Turkish" (Ad Backus); "Oral and Written Assyrian-English Codeswitching" (Erica McClure); "Written Codeswitching: Powerful Bilingual Images" (Cecilia Montes-Alcala); "Talking in Johannesburg: The Negotiation of Identity in Conversation" (Robert K. Herbert); "Codeswitching in the Language of Immigrants: The Case of Franbreu" (Miriam Ben-Rafael); and "Towards a New Understanding of Codeswitching in the Foreign Language Classroom" (Diana-Lee Simon). A subject reference is also included. (Contains 294 references.) (KFT) The goal of this chapter is to summarize developments in the Matrix Language Frame model of codeswitching since its introduction in Duelling Languages (Myers-Scotton 1993a) and to clarify the model in regard to problematic codeswitching data. Edited By Rodolfo Jacobson. Chiefly Papers Presented At The 14th World Congress Of Sociology, Held 1998, University Of Montreal. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.