Publications

Publication details [#35802]

Burt, Susan Meredith. 1992. Codeswitching, convergence and compliance: The development of micro-community speech norms. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development 13 (1/2) : 169–185.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

accommodation theory | bilingualism | code-switching

Place, Publisher

Multilingual Matters

ISBN

0143-4632

Journal WWW

www.multilingual-matters.com/multi/onlinej.asp

Annotation

This paper argues that the codeswitching pattern of compliance is more accommodating than the codeswitching pattern of convergence, in contrast with Speech Accommodation Theory claims.