Title: Interactional otherness: Towards a redefinition of codeswitching
Abstract:The concept of c odeswitching has traditionally been understood, from an external observer's perspective, to mean any occurrence of two languages within the same conversation. Our position is that lan...The concept of c odeswitching has traditionally been understood, from an external observer's perspective, to mean any occurrence of two languages within the same conversation. Our position is that language alternation should be observed from participants' own perspective. From this perspective, many distinct types of language alternation can be identified, namely “language alternation itself as the medium,” “medium repair” (Gafaranga, 1999,2000) and functional deviance from the medium. In turn, in this last possibility, two situations can be found: "medium-switching" and “medium suspension.” However, for practical reasons of research continuity, we suggest to keep the term “codeswitching” to refer to both cases for both are instances of i nteractional otherness. Thus, our “respecification” is that c odeswitching is, not any occurrence of two languages within the same conversation, but rather any instance of deviance from current medium which is not oriented to(by participants themselves) as requiring any repair .Read More
Publication Year: 2002
Publication Date: 2002-03-01
Language: en
Type: article
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