Li, Wei (1995) Code‐switching, preference marking and politeness in bilingual cross‐generational talk: Examples from a Chinese community in Britain. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development 16 (3), pp. 197-214. ISSN 0143-4632.
Abstract
This paper deals with two related research questions: (1) how an understanding of the meaning of bilingual code‐switching can be achieved, and (2) how speakers with very different abilities in and attitudes to the languages communicate with each other in close and informal encounters. Drawing examples from the Tyneside Chinese community in the North East of England, a sequential analysis of conversational code‐switching by speakers of different generations is presented. Particular attention is paid to the marking of preference organisation in bilingual cross‐generational family talk. The meaning of code‐switching is interpreted with reference to the participants’ own consideration of the communicative and social consequences, along the lines of Brown & Levinson's ‘politeness’ theory.
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| Item Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| School: | Birkbeck Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences > School of Creative Arts, Culture and Communication |
| Depositing User: | Administrator |
| Date Deposited: | 04 Jul 2012 08:45 |
| Last Modified: | 09 Aug 2023 12:31 |
| URI: | https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/4882 |
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