Publications

Publication details [#44259]

İssa, Tözün. 2006. An ethnographic case study of code switching and language choice: the uses of Cypriot Turkish in London. International Journal of the Sociology of Language 181 : 83–106.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

borrowing | code-switching | language choice | language shift | workplace conversation

Language as a subject

English, British | Turkish, Cypriot

Place, Publisher

De Gruyter

Journal WWW

www.degruyter.com/journal/key/IJSL/html

Annotation

This case study shows changing patterns of language choice, code-switching, and borrowing in naturally occurring workplace conversations of second and third generation Cypriot Turkish women in London, in order to adjust to new sociolinguistic paradigms.