Code-Switching, Languages in Contact and Electronic Writings Contributor(s): Erfurt, Jürgen (Editor), Laroussi, Foued (Editor) |
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ISBN: 3631609108 ISBN-13: 9783631609101 Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der W OUR PRICE: $57.52 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: April 2011 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Language Arts & Disciplines - Computers | Data Processing - Literary Criticism | Semiotics & Theory |
Dewey: 306.44 |
LCCN: 2011500656 |
Series: Sprache, Mehrsprachigkeit Und Sozialer Wandel. Language. Mul |
Physical Information: 162 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: The aim of this book is not to revisit work done on code-switching as a verbal strategy, but to discuss code-switching in electronic writing. Sociolinguistic approaches have focused mainly on the analysis of oral productions. What is the position with regard to writing and, more specifically, electronic writing? In this collection dealing with code-switching situations in electronic writing the contributors give answers to the following major question: what happens when multilingual writers who belong to social networks, virtual or otherwise, communicate among themselves in one or more common languages? Special attention is given to code-switching both in CMCs (Computer-Mediated Communications) and in mobile phone use. Given the constraints inherent in both types of communication, the written productions they give rise to do not show the same features and therefore do not call for the same treatment. |