Publications

Publication details [#46468]

Fina, Anna de. 2007. Code-switching and the construction of ethnic identity in a community of practice. Language in Society 36 (3) : 371–392.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

code-switching | community of practice | discourse strategy | ethnicity | identity negotiation

Language as a subject

English, American | Italian

Place, Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Journal WWW

journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

This paper uses an interactionally oriented approach to offer an analysis of immigrant Italian ethnicity construction as a pivotal element in the collective identity negotiation of an all-male card playing club in the U.S.