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Publication details [#14254]

Bain, Bruce and Agnes Yu. 2000. Towards a fuller appreciation of codeswitching. Journal of Pragmatics 32 (9) : 1405–1411.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

child language | code-switching | cognitive process | power

Language as a subject

Cantonese | English

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

ISBN

0378-2166

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

A cognitive approach to codeswitching based on the analysis of a bilingual 4-year-old child. Within the framework of the rational actor model, it is argued that the child makes pragmatic language choices according to his perception of the language of power.