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Publication details [#43949]

Hinrichs, Lars. 2006. Codeswitching on the Web: English and Jamaican Creole in e-mail communication. (Pragmatics & Beyond New Series 147). John Benjamins. X+302 pp.
Publication type
Book – monograph
Publication language
English

Annotation

Based on a corpus of private email from Jamaican university students, this study explores the discourse functions of Jamaican Creole in computer-mediated communication. From this participant-centered perspective, it contributes to the longstanding theoretical debates in creole studies about the creole continuum. The central methodological issue in this study is codeswitching in written language, a neglected area of study at the moment since most literature in codeswitching research is based on spoken data. The three analytical chapters present the data in a critical discussion of established and more recent theoretical approaches to codeswitching. Fields that will benefit from this book include interactional sociolinguistics, creole studies, English as a world language, computer-mediated discourse analysis, and linguistic anthropology