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Publication details [#64701]

Dewaele, Jean-Marc and Alessandra Panicacci. 2018. Do interlocutors or conversation topics affect migrants’ sense of feeling different when switching languages? Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development 39 (3) : 240–255.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Language as a subject
Place, Publisher
Routledge

Annotation

The greater part of multilinguals report feeling different when switching codes. This inquiry centers on feelings of difference when switching codes with specific categories of interlocutors (strangers, colleagues, friends, family, partner) and when debating specific types of topics (neutral, personal, emotional). Statistical assays disclosed that 468 Italian migrants living in English-speaking countries feel more different when they employ English to debtate emotional topics with less familiar interlocutors.