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Publication details [#50243]

Milroy, Lesley, Li Wei and Pong Sin Ching. 1992. A two-step sociolinguistic analysis of code-switching and language choice: the example of a bilingual Chinese community in Britain. International Journal of Applied Linguistics 2 (1) : 63–86.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

age | bilingualism | language choice | language mixing | social network

Language as a subject

Chinese | English

Place, Publisher

Blackwell Publishers

Journal WWW

www.ingenta.com/journals/browse/bpl/ijal

Annotation

Using conversation analysis and the social network concept, this paper explores patterns of language choice at community level and of language mixing at interactional level in a Chinese-English bilingual community in northeastern England.