Publications

Publication details [#30783]

Hall, Joan Kelly, Eurydice Bouchereau Bauer and Kirsten Kruth. 2002. The pragmatic role of codeswitching in play contexts. International Journal of Bilingualism 6 (1) : 53–74.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

bilingualism | children's play | code | code-switching | language use

Language as a subject

English | German

Place, Publisher

Kingston Press

ISBN

0023-8309

Journal WWW

journals.sagepub.com/home/ijb

Annotation

This study indicates that children's varied use of two languages in play activities with adult caregivers can lead to the development of pragmatically differentiated bilinguals in terms of code use and language functions.