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Publication details [#14904]

King, Ruth and Terry Nadasdi. 1999. The expression of evidentiality in French-English bilingual discourse. Language in Society 28 (3) : 355–365.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Language as a subject
Place, Publisher
Cambridge University Press
ISBN
0047-4045

Annotation

In this study of codeswitching in verbs of opinion/belief in French-English bilingual discourse, it is found that codeswitching highlights the speaker's stance with regard to the propositional truth (as well as expressing a sense of uncertainty in English codeswitches). It is argued that variation in usage is a matter of language contact intensity.