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Halmari, Helena and Wendy Smith. 1994. Code-switching and register shift: Evidence from Finnish-English child bilingual conversation. Journal of Pragmatics 21 (4) : 427–445.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Language as a subject
Place, Publisher
Elsevier
ISBN
0378-2166

Annotation

This paper considers code-switching as a marker of register change in bilingual conversation, rather than as an isolated phenomenon, following Auer's (1984) framework, according to which code-switching tends to co-occur with other features that mark register shift. Evidence is found in the analysis of recorded natural conversation of two Finnish-English bilingual children.