Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. I-IV I
2. Contents V
3. Introduction 1
4. Section 1 Theoretical issues revisited
5. The matrix language frame model: Developments and responses 23
6. Language alternation: The third kind of codeswitching mechanism 59
7. Section 2 Linguistic aspects: From morphosyntax to semantics
8. Contrastive sociolinguistics: Borrowed and codeswitched past participles in Romance-Germanic language contact 75
9. Functional categories and codeswitching in Japanese/English 91
10. Linguostatistic study of Bulgarian in the Ukraine 105
11. The role of semantic specificity in insertional codeswitching: Evidence from Dutch -Turkish 125
12. Section 3 Codeswitching as oral and/or written strategy
13. Oral and written Assyrian-English codeswitching 157
14. Written codeswitching: Powerful bilingual images 193
15. Section 4 Emergence of new ethnicities
16. Talking in Johannesburg: The negotiation of identity in conversation 223
17. Codeswitching in the language of immigrants: The case of Franbreu 251
18. Section 5 Communication codes in education
19. Towards a new understanding of codeswitching in the foreign language classroom 311
20. References 343
21. Index 365