bilingual interactions

[Chelsea Booth]

This happens where I've done my work (Darjeeling, West Bengal, India), most
often with Nepali, Hindi, Bengali, and English.

Chelsea


*Chelsea L. Booth, Ph.D.*

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On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 5:22 PM, Woolard, Kathryn <kwoolard at ucsd.edu> wrote:

> Hi Rudi -
>
> This practice has been advocated  by some policymakers in Catalonia over
> the last couple decades, since autonomy was established in 1979. I wrote
> about it as "the bilingual norm"  in my 1989 book, Double Talk (pp.
> 77-80). I think I've used other terms elsewhere - maybe "passive bilingual
> conversations"? - and others have written about it in Catalonia, too,
> though again I can't recall a settled term.  I recently saw a comment on
> the practice elsewhere, but darned if I can remember where...
>
> Kit
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: "Gaudio, Rudolf" <Rudolf.Gaudio at PURCHASE.EDU>
> Reply-To: "Gaudio, Rudolf" <Rudolf.Gaudio at PURCHASE.EDU>
> Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2011 15:06:40 -0400
> To: "LINGANTH at LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG"
> <LINGANTH at LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG>
> Subject: bilingual interactions
>
> >Dear colleagues:
> >
> >What do you/we call it when a conversation unfolds in which Speaker A
> >speaks to Speaker B in one language (X-ish), and Speaker B responds in
> >another (Y-ish)? The assumption is that both speakers have at least some
> >passive competence in the other's language.
> >
> >And do you know of any scholarship on this phenomenon?
> >
> >Thanks for your help.
> >
> >-Rudi
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >Rudolf P. Gaudio
> >Associate Professor of Anthropology and Media, Society & the Arts
> >Purchase College, State University of New York
> >735 Anderson Hill Rd.
> >Purchase, NY 10577
> >
> >tel. +1 914 251 6619
> >fax +1 914 251 6603
> >rudolf.gaudio at purchase.edu
>