Claudia Bucher

List of John Benjamins publications for which Claudia Bucher plays a role.

Articles

This study examines the formal and functional aspects of code-switching in a Swiss-German SMS (text messages) corpus of 10,706 messages. We investigate the types of codes used by the writers, the grammatical properties of the code-switched elements, and the potential functions of code-switching… read more
Morel, Étienne, Claudia Bucher, Simona Pekarek Doehler and Beat Siebenhaar 2014 SMS communication as plurilingual communication: Hybrid language use as a challenge for classical code-switching categoriesSMS Communication: A linguistic approach, Cougnon, Louise-Amélie and Cédrick Fairon (eds.), pp. 111–139 | Article
The use of more than one language in SMS communication is widespread, yet has remained relatively underexplored in the existing research. In this paper we ask: What methodological and conceptual tools are needed for empirically investigating code-switching in large databases of SMS communication?… read more
Morel, Étienne, Claudia Bucher, Simona Pekarek Doehler and Beat Siebenhaar 2012 SMS communication as plurilingual communication: Hybrid language use as a challenge for classical code-switching categoriesSMS Communication: A linguistic approach, Cougnon, Louise-Amélie and Cédrick Fairon (eds.), pp. 260–288 | Article
The use of more than one language in SMS communication is widespread, yet has remained relatively underexplored in the existing research. In this paper we ask: What methodological and conceptual tools are needed for empirically investigating code-switching in large databases of SMS communication?… read more