Bilingual Couples in Conversation
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Beschreibung
This book provides a detailed linguistic analysis of the communication of ten highly proficient bilingual couples, consisting of a Swiss and an English-speaking partner. It sheds light on various areas of their language use, e.g. their language choice, their language mixing behaviour, their manner of expressing emotions, their use of and reaction to swearwords, their attitudes and their humour and laughter.
This book provides a detailed linguistic analysis of the communication between highly proficient bilingual couples, each consisting of a native speaker of English and of Swiss German. Combining the accounts of ten couples on their language use with an analysis of their actual linguistic behaviour, several areas of the partners' speech and interaction were closely examined. These include their language choice and language mixing, attitudes, expression of emotions, swearing, as well as their humour and laughter. In addition, the influence of the bilinguals' mother tongue and gender on their language use was explored. Thus, the study provides valuable insights into the language practices of established bilingual couples, while also contributing to the fields of fluent late bilingualism and gender research.
detailed linguistic analysis of various areas of the speech of established, fluent bilingual couples, analysing partners' own reports as well as actual language use with innovative research methods, examining role of gender and mother tongue in bilinguals' language use, mixing, swearing and humour
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Silja Ang-Tschachtli
Themen in »Bilingual Couples in Conversation«
bilingual couples language mixing humour emotions Mixing Bilingual bilingualism Expression Native speaker bilingual Corpus Interaction Analysis Gender Addition