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Publication details [#50972]
Tsiplakou, Stavroula. 2009. Doing (bi)lingualism: Language alternation as performative construction of online identities. Pragmatics 19 (3) : 361–391.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Place, Publisher
International Pragmatics Association
Journal DOI
10.1075/prag
Annotation
This study discusses how extensive inter- and intra-sentential Greek-English code-switching in the e-mail communication of native Greek speakers, and their complex overall language play of style- or register-shifting and mixing, contributes to the construction of their online sociolinguistic (group) identities.