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Bartning, Inge; Hammarberg, Bjorn – International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching (IRAL), 2007
This cross-linguistic study investigates the functionality and use of one particular linguistic collocation in each of two languages, viz. the French c'est and the Swedish det ar, both meaning "it is." The data are drawn from conversational speech production by adult native speakers and second language learners. The investigation shows that these…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, Second Language Learning, French, Native Speakers
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Stromman, Solveig – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 1987
The alternating and mixed use of Swedish and Finnish and special trade slang in three relatively small firms (employing a total of 678 employees, 40 percent of whom were Swedish-speaking, 56 percent Finnish-speaking, and 4 percent bilingual) in the bilingual city of Vasa, Finland was analyzed. (CB)
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Business Communication, Code Switching (Language), Discourse Analysis