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Coronel-Molina, Serafín M.; Samuelson, Beth L. – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2017
In this essay we examine the notions of language contact phenomena such as borrowing, codeswitching, codemixing, codemeshing, and translanguaging. We also explore the concepts of translingualism and translingual literacies. We discuss how the notions of bilingualism and multilingualism are differentiated from translingualism and translingual…
Descriptors: Literacy, Code Switching (Language), Creoles, American Indians
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Rosendal, Tove; Mapunda, Gastor – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2014
Tanzania's post-independence language policy has promoted Swahili as a means of achieving national and linguistic unity. This policy has affected the Ngoni language in south-western Tanzania. Today, Swahili has permeated communication all over Tanzania, even in rural and remote areas. This paper discusses lexical borrowing and especially borrowing…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, African Languages, Language Skill Attrition, Language Maintenance
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Marzo, Stefania; Ceuleers, Evy – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2011
The term "Citetaal" was originally used to refer to the language spoken by Italian immigrants in the Eastern part of Flanders (Limburg) and diffused in the former ghettoised mining areas (the cite). It is a melting pot language, based on Dutch but with a high amount of code mixture from immigrant languages, mostly Italian and Turkish.…
Descriptors: Language Variation, Student Attitudes, Focus Groups, Adolescents
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Gysels, Marjolein – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 1992
The motives for the integration of French elements into Lubumbashi Swahili are investigated. Based on an analysis of three different texts, it is argued that the mixing process is carefully regulated and controlled to serve several communicative functions. (18 references) (Author/LB)
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), Foreign Countries, French, Language Usage
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Eastman, Carol M. – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 1992
Twelve papers on codeswitching are reviewed briefly in this introduction to a special journal issue. The following topics are covered: borrowing versus codeswitching, codeswitching in a political discourse context, situational uses. (16 references) (LB)
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), Cultural Pluralism, Discourse Analysis, Foreign Countries
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Myers-Scotton, Carol – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 1992
Examines the extent to which material from a donor language (Embedded Language or EL) appearing in a recipient language (Matrix Language) shows internal differentiation. It is suggested that models of structural aspects of codeswitching must provide a unified account for all EL material in codeswitching utterances. (Author/LB)
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), Contrastive Linguistics, Cultural Pluralism, Language Research
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Pedersen, Karen Margrethe – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 1987
Children from the German minority in Denmark were studied as part of a longitudinal sociolinguistic research project. Most spoke the Jutland (a Danish) dialect and picked up German as a second language when they started preschool, resulting in code-switching and interference in some cases, which appear to be manifestations of linguistic creativity…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Case Studies, Child Language, Code Switching (Language)