Publications

Publication details [#15013]

Myers-Scotton, Carol and Agnes Bolonyai. 2001. Calculating speakers: Codeswitching in a rational choice model. Language in Society 30 (1) : 1–28.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

code-switching | language variation | markedness

Place, Publisher

Cambridge University Press

ISBN

0047-4045

Journal WWW

journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

A case is made for using Rational Choice Models in accounts of linguistic variation. It is shown how codeswitching, for example, can be better explained by a rationally based model such as the Markedness Model.