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Bani-Shoraka, Helena – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2008
This study examines how bilingual family members use language choice and language alternation as a local scheme of interpretation to distinguish different and often contesting social identities in interaction. It is argued that the playful creation of oppositional identities in interaction relieves the speakers from responsibility and creates a…
Descriptors: Ethnography, Family Relationship, Language Usage, Foreign Countries