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Publication details [#12155]

Bailey, Benjamin. 2000. Social/interactional functions of code switching among Dominican Americans. Pragmatics 10 (2) : 165–193.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Language as a subject
Place, Publisher
International Pragmatics Association
ISBN
1018-2101
Journal DOI
10.1075/prag

Annotation

The results of this study show that codeswitching among Dominican American high school students has two main functions: (1) to respond to visible changes in situation and (2) to contextualize communicative contributions to their interactions.