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Publication details [#14248]

Aslanov, Cyril. 2000. Interpreting the language-mixing in terms of codeswitching: The case of the Franco-Italian interface in the Middle Ages. Journal of Pragmatics 32 (9) : 1273–1281.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

code-switching | literary language

Language as a subject

French | Italian

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

ISBN

0378-2166

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

In this study, codeswitching is traced back to medieval texts. The reconstructions show that codeswitching was used in these texts for aestethic (preference of form), literary reasons (prosody), as well as for disambiguating a potential homonym.