Publications

Publication details [#15062]

Argenter, Joan A. 2001. Code-switching and dialogism: Verbal practices among Catalan Jews in the Middle Ages. Language in Society 30 (3) : 377–402.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

code-switching | genre | language contact

Language as a subject

Catalan | Hebrew

Place, Publisher

Cambridge University Press

ISBN

0047-4045

Journal WWW

journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

The analysis of code-switching functions in two verbal practices of 14th and 15th century Catalan Jewish communities revealed variations in terms of code-switching and lexical borrowing, prompting the debate on the existence of a medieval Catalan Jewish language.