A Minimalist Approach to Intrasentential Code Switching

List of contents

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS, PREFACE, 1. RATIONALE, 2. LITERATURE REVIEW, 3. RESEARCH DESIGN, 4. SPANISH-NAHUATL CODE SWITCHING: BASIC FINDINGS, 5. A MINIMALIST APPROACH TO CODE SWITCHING, 6. SOME IMPLICATIONS FOR EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH AND PRACTICE, BIBLIOGRAPHY, INDEX

Summary

Argues that if the underlying linguistic competence of code switchers people who switch back and forth between languages, dialects, or levels of formality is the same as that of monolinguals for the languages they use, then code switching should not be stigmatized in schools. Also contends that a b

Product details

• Authors: Jeff MacSwan
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Content: Book
• Product form: Hardback
• Publication date: 01.01.1999
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics
• EAN: 9780815332749
• ISBN: 978-0-8153-3274-9
• Pages: 306
• Dimensions (packing): 13.8 x 21.6 cm
• Weight (packing): 770 g
• Series: Outstanding Dissertations in Linguistics
• Subjects: Linguistics, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General, Educational Linguistics, language contact phenomena, bilingualism research, sociolinguistics theory, Spanish Nahuatl analysis, linguistic minority education, syntactic constraints in code switching