Publications

Publication details [#42535]

Williams, Ashley M. 2005. Fighting words and challenging expectations: language alternation and social roles in a family dispute. Journal of Pragmatics 37 (3) : 371–328.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

code-switching | dispute | expectation | family conversation | social role

Language as a subject

Chinese, Cantonese | English, American

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

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Annotation

This study examines whether social roles and expectations can be useful in understanding language alternation in a Cantonese-American bilingual family dispute.