Language choice in multilingual communities Q Discuss your

Language choice in multilingual communities

Q: Discuss your own language use (p. 22)

Q: Discuss limitations of a domain-based approach to language choice

Q: Discuss factors that may account for the code choices in example 5 (p. 25)

Q: Discuss all the possible social factors affecting code choice (p. 25 -26)

Q: Discuss 3 features of diglossia (p. 27)

Q: Discuss your own use of H and L variety in diglossia situations (p. 28)

Q: Exercise 8 (p. 34)

Q: Discuss factors affecting code-switching/codemixing (p. 34 -42)

Q: Discuss the topics that can be more easily expressed in your L 1 and L 2 (p. 37)

Q: Provide an example of code-switching for affective functions (See the example 12, p. 38 -39)

Q: Exercise 10

Q: Explain lexical borrowing (p. 43)

Q: Discuss different approaches to code-switching (p. 44 -45)

Ø One approach to distinguishing code-switching and borrowing is to refer to the size of the unit of embedded language. Thus, borrowing is said to occur at word level while the notion code-switching is applied to larger stretches of speech (Færch & Kasper 1983; Grosjean 1982). However, this does not seem to provide a genuinely principled distinction between intrasentential code-switching and borrowing.

Ø It has been suggested that borrowing is associated with the presence of a clear base language while code-switching is associated with the presence of two languages interacting in discourse (e. g. Nishimura 1995).

Ø With reference to the availability of L 2 knowledge, code-switching is considered by some to symptomize “the most available word phenomenon” (Grosjean 1982, p. 151) and not necessarily to result from ‘‘dysfluency’’ (Green 1986, p. 215).

Q: Are there universal rules of code-switching? (your own opinion)

Q: Can L 2 proficiency affect the use of codeswitching? (p. 45)