Title
Code-Switching and Optimality. An Optimality-Theoretical Approach to the Socio-Pragmatic Patterns of Hungarian-English Code-Switching
Author
Tímea Kovács
Peer review
Anna Fenyvesi
Date
2018
Place
Budapest | Paris
Summary
Extensive academic research has been devoted to the analysis of living in a world exposed to the constant interplay of two languages and cultures. In the quest for understanding the underlying mental, emotional, and cognitive mechanisms of bilingualism, investigating the speech patterns of bilinguals has taken on increasing importance. Over recent years, code-switching as a linguistic phenomenon particularly characterizing bilinguals’ speech patterns has been examined from the perspective of providing a lucid explanation of the interplay of linguistic-pragmatic and socio-cultural factors activated in bilingual speech mode. This book will attempt to provide a complex analysis of code-switching patterns in a Hungarian-American bilingual community in the Triangle area of North Carolina, USA. The main premise of the book is that the complex linguistic-pragmatic nature of code-switching patterns activated by various socio-cultural factors can be systematically interpreted in the framework of the theory of Optimality. The uniqueness of this book lies in the fact that the proposed conclusions rely on the analysis of a large-scale corpus of personal interviews conducted in the course of extensive on-site research.
Publisher
L’Harmattan
Co-publisher
Károli Gáspár University of the Reformed Church in Hungary | Éditions L’Harmattan
Type of publication
monográfia
Field of science
Nyelvhasználat: pragmatika, szociolingvisztika, beszédelemzés... / Use of language: pragmatics, sociolinguistics, discourse analysis... (13027)
Keywords
bilingualism | code-switching | socio-pragmatic constraints | community language
Format
Text
ISBN
978-2-343-15050-5
Series
Collection Károli. Collection of Papers
ISSN
2062-9850
Language
angol
Edition
Első kiadás
Rights
CC BY-NC-ND 4.0