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OPTIMALITY THEORY IN ANALYZING BILINGUAL USE Tableau 7: Interaction of SOLIDARITY and FACE (SOLIDARITY >> FACE) Candidates FAITH | PERSPECTIVE | SOLIDARITY | FACE POWER — (a) "Köszi szépen, M. Ha esetleg át * * tudnád rendezni a funkciókat ..." (b) "Ihank you very much, M. If you could maybe re-organize the functions ...’ #1 In the examples listed above, we have seen that Solidarity outranks both Face and Power. However, we have not seen empirical evidence of the interaction of Faith and Perspective with Solidarity. Example [20] indicates how Faith and Solidarity relate to one another. Example [20] — The interaction of FAITH and SOLIDARITY 1 A “Most itt azéta van rend, amiôta eldjott ez az ... izé, a homeland security 2 probléma, most mindenhol civil ruhás, meg egyenruhás rendőrök vannak, 3 és ezek ... az ilyen bűnözések egy kicsit lecsökkentek, mert mindent 4 figyelnek." (Now, here its been order since this ... this whatchamacallit, the homeland security problem has come up, now there are policemen in plainclothes and uniform everywhere, and these ... like the crimes have decreased a little, because they are watching everything.) (source: data collected by Kovács in 2008—2009) This utterance provides clear indication of Faith outranking Solidarity. The speaker switches to English in line 1 to express the most authentically a sociocultural concept embedded in contemporary American life. The switch, hence, complies with the constraint of Faith. However, it violates Solidarity, as the speaker switches to the language of Power, English, from the default language of the conversation, Hungarian. As the actual surface representation is the switch to English, it is the more optimal choice serving the intended socio-pragmatic function of maximum authenticity. The actual surface representation, the code-switched candiate complying with Faith, is a more optimal choice than
