Publications

Publication details [#9096]

St.Clair, Robert N. and Guadalupe Valdés. 1980. The sociology of code-switching. Language Sciences 2 (2) : 205–221.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

code-switching | ethnomethodology | symbolic interactionism

Journal WWW

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Annotation

Plea for a micro-theory of code-switching in which the instrumental use of language and other forms of semiotic expression are readily explicated. The model proposed has links with symbolic interactionism and ethnomethodology.