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CHAPTER 8 OVERALL SUMMARY
genre of the examined corpus was semi-structured sociolinguistic interviews
(Chapter 6), subjects relied on the act of code-switching mostly to fulfill
various discourse-related functions. As Perspective and Faith include the most
numerous discourse-related functions, they emerged the most freguently in
the corpus. The other three functions Solidarity, Face, and Power emerged less
frequently as these functions reflect the dynamics of interpersonal relations.
However, the frame of the interviews — mainly dinner conversations — is a least
appropriate context to stimulate interpersonal dynamics.
I have examined how the sociopragmatic constraints governing the
sociopragmatic meaning-making mechanism of code-switching interact with
one another (Chapter 7). The algorithmic representation of the interaction of
the sociopragmatic constraints has reinforced Bolonyai and Bhatt’s proposed
ranking*” applicable on Hungarian-English code-switching.
311 Bhatt — Bolonyai, Ibid., 522-546
* 183 ¢