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Publication details [#4113]

Gumperz, John J. 1970. Verbal strategies in multilingual communication. Monograph Series on Languages and Linguistics 23 : 129–143.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

code-switching | context | language choice | language variety | lexical choice

Annotation

G. analyzes several cases in which the correlation between language usage and setting breaks down. With reference to Chicano and Afro-American conversations, he shows that selection among alternate codes is meaningful in much the same way that choice among alternate vocabulary items is meaningful in monolingual societies.