bilingual interactions

[Jonathan Rosa]

Dear Rudi:

There is a European volume on this phenomenon, "receptive  
multilingualism", that highlights the two-way receptive bilingual  
situation that you describe as a desired model of multilingualism and  
multiculturalism that is promoted throughout Europe (notwithstanding  
increasing attacks on multiculturalism):

http://www.amazon.com/Receptive-Multilingualism-Linguistic-analyses-language/dp/9027219265

http://benjamins.com/catalog/hsm.6?sa=1

Hope this helps!

Jonathan

Jonathan Rosa, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology
Fronteras Fellow, Center for Latin American, Caribbean, and Latino  
Studies
University of Massachusetts Amherst
jdrosa at anthro.umass.edu
On Aug 22, 2011, at 5:22 PM, Woolard, Kathryn 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
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> 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