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Language Mixing and Code-Switching in Writing

Approaches to Mixed-Language Written Discourse

By: Mark Sebba (Editor), Shahrzad Mahootian (Editor), Carla Jonsson (Editor)

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Hardcover | 1 February 2011 | Edition Number 1

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292 Pages

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"Code-switching," or the alternation of languages by bilinguals, has attracted an enormous amount of attention from researchers. However, most research has focused on spoken language, and the resultant theoretical frameworks have been based on spoken code-switching. This volume presents a collection of new work on the alternation of languages in written form.

Written language alternation has existed since ancient times. It is present today in a great deal of traditional media, and also exists in newer, less regulated forms such as email, SMS messages, and blogs. Chapters in this volume cover both historical and contemporary language-mixing practices in a large range of language pairs and multilingual communities.

The research collected here explores diverse approaches, including corpus linguistics, Critical Discourse Analysis, literacy studies, ethnography, and analyses of the visual/textual aspects of written data. Each chapter, based on empirical research of multilingual writing, presents methodological approaches as models for other researchers. New perspectives developed in this book include: analysis specific to written, rather than spoken, discourse; approaches from the new literacy studies, treating mixed-language literacy from a practice perspective; a focus on both "traditional" and "new" media types; and the semiotics of both text and the visual environment.

Industry Reviews

"A laudable collection of articles in terms of showcasing viable methodologies for researching multilingualism in general, and written language mixing in particular... Overall, the book is a great resource for anyone interested in studying multilingual semiotic practices in the written medium." - LINGUIST List

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