Publications
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
Keywords
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.