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Dorjee, Tenzin; Giles, Howard; Barker, Valerie – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2011
Diasporic communities around the world regularly encounter challenges of preserving their identities and communication practices while adapting to their host social-cultural environment. Grounded in communication accommodation theory (CAT) and informed by recent research on deviance, this study investigated the relationships between Tibetan…
Descriptors: Predictor Variables, Foreign Countries, Cultural Context, Linguistic Theory
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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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Nakuma, Constancio – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 1997
Argues, with a theoretical focus, that evidence of cross-linguistic influences on language use can and ought to be enlisted in second language (L2) attrition research to clean up "spontaneous speech data." Notes that since L2 attrition researchers have little control over the content of the spontaneous speech data they use, they need the…
Descriptors: Language Research, Language Skill Attrition, Language Usage, Linguistic Borrowing