Publications

Publication details [#51325]

Chanseawrassamee, Supamit and Sarah J. Shin. 2009. Participant- and discourse-related code-switching by Thai—English bilingual adolescents. Multilingua 28 (1) : 45–78.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

adolescent | bilingual acquisition | code-switching | communicative efficiency | function

Language as a subject

English | Thai

Place, Publisher

De Gruyter

Journal WWW

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

Annotation

Drawing on Auer's sequential analysis, this paper argues that two Thai-English bilingual adolescent brothers, temporarily residing in the United States, use code-switching as an additional communicative tool to achieve specific conversational goals.