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Publication details [#9543]

Trumper, J. 1984. Language variation, code switching, S. Chirico Raparo (Potenza) and the migrant question (Konstanz). In Auer, J.C. Peter and Aldo Di Luzio, eds. Interpretive sociolinguistics: Migrants, children, migrant children. G. Narr. pp. 29–54.
Publication type
Article in book
Publication language
English
Keywords
bilingualism | code-switching | functions of language | immigrant worker | uses of language | variability
Language as a subject
German

Annotation

T. argues that a redefinition of the repertoire of codes, uses, and functions of language is needed to tackle in detail the problem of the language behavior of bilinguals in particular migrant situations. (With special reference to Italian migrants in Germany).