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Wagner, Esther-Miriam; Connolly, Magdalen – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2018
This paper investigates code-switching and script-switching in medieval documents from the Cairo Geniza, written in Judaeo-Arabic (Arabic in Hebrew script), Hebrew, Arabic and Aramaic. Legal documents regularly show a macaronic style of Judaeo-Arabic, Aramaic and Hebrew, while in letters code-switching from Judaeo-Arabic to Hebrew is tied in with…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), Semitic Languages, Medieval Literature, Written Language
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Keim, Inken – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2009
This paper begins by looking at responses to Bernstein in Germany in the 1970s that criticized his notions of class difference in sociolinguistic codes. As part of a re-examination of Bernstein's ideas, the paper goes on to look at the current communicative situation in German education where urban schools have many second-generation immigrant…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Peer Groups, Multilingualism, Foreign Countries