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1. Researching bilingual couple talk: A discourse-analytic approach to language contact
2. What we know: Bilingual couples in linguistic research
3. “It needs to be natural”: Building a corpus
4. The couples
5. “I speak English very well”: Linguistic backgrounds
6. “We speak bilingually”: Language choice
7. “We are citizens of the world”: Identity and cross-cultural couplehood
8. “Talk is essential”: Doing couplehood
9. “The doors of Europe will be open to them”: Private language planning
10. “I’m a hybrid”: Hybrid identities, multiple discourses
Notes
References
Couples index
Name and subject index
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