Publications

Publication details [#25628]

Nishimura, Miwa. 1995. A functional analysis of Japanese/English code-switching. Journal of Pragmatics 23 (2) : 157–181.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Language as a subject
Place, Publisher
Elsevier
ISBN
0378-2166

Annotation

This comprehensive study identifies code-switching functions within the Canadian NISEIS (second generation) in-group speech repertoire and its three varieties (the basically Japanese, the basically English and the mixed variety), uncovering the relationships between language choices, patterns of code-switching, and their functions.