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Publication details [#42538]

Wei, Li. 2005. “How can you tell?”: Towards a common sense explanation of conversational code-switching. Journal of Pragmatics 37 (3) : 375–389.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

bilingualism | code-switching | conversational analysis | language choice | talk-in-interaction

Language as a subject

Chinese | English

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This paper advocates the use of the conversation analytic approach to provide a common sense explanation, using evidence from talk-in-interaction, of conversational code-switching. The two languages involved here are English and Chinese.