Switching between seven codes within one family—a linguistic resource
- Autores: Bent Søndergaard
- Localización: Journal of multilingual and multicultural development, ISSN 0143-4632, Vol. 12, Nº. 1-2, 1991, págs. 85-92
- Idioma: inglés
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Resumen
Until now the extensive exploration of code‐switching within multilingual research has focused on this phenomenon in idiolects or sociolects. In this paper, however, it is analysed as part of a ‘familylect’, e.g. code‐switching is described as it occurs in the spoken language of a multilingual family with four members.
Seven different language codes are involved, namely three languages in Scandinavia (Danish, Finnish, Swedish), two dialectal Danish subcodes, and two European main languages (German, English). This complicated linguistic pattern leads to frequent shifts between all the seven codes involved: code‐switching occurs daily.
Through a linguistic and extra‐linguistic analysis of the context in a great material I will try—from my point of view—to answer the three classical questions connected with code switching: when? how? why?
