Publications

Publication details [#11811]

Kaucic-Baša, Majda. 1997. Where do Slovenes Speak Slovene and to Whom? Minority Language Choice in a Transactional Setting. International Journal of the Sociology of Language 124 : 51–73. 23 pp.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

code | code-switching | communicative competence

Language as a subject

Italian | Slovene

Place, Publisher

Walter de Gruyter

ISBN

0165-2516

Journal WWW

www.degruyter.com/journal/key/IJSL/html

Annotation

Analysis of Italian/Slovene choice of code in the Slovene community of Trieste (Italy) revealed that spoken Slovene is marked as private code. Measures for raising the Italian population's awareness of the Slovenes are presented.