31.1433, Books: Bilingualism in the Community: Cacoullos, Travis

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Subject: 31.1433, Books: Bilingualism in the Community: Cacoullos, Travis

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Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2020 21:23:51
From: Rachel Tonkin [rtonkin at cambridge.org]
Subject: Bilingualism in the Community: Cacoullos, Travis

 


Title: Bilingualism in the Community 
Subtitle: Code-switching and Grammars in Contact 
Publication Year: 2020 
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
	   http://cambridge.org
	

Book URL: https://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/languages-linguistics/sociolinguistics/bilingualism-community-code-switching-and-grammars-contact?format=PB 


Author: Rena Torres Cacoullos
Author: Catherine E. Travis

Paperback: ISBN:  9781108402415 Pages:  Price: U.S. $ 27.99
Paperback: ISBN:  9781108402415 Pages:  Price: U.K. £ 22.99
Paperback: ISBN:  9781108402415 Pages:  Price: Europe EURO 26.83


Abstract:

Does the use of two languages by bilinguals inevitably bring about grammatical
change? Does switching between languages serve as a catalyst in such change?
It is widely held that linguistic code-switching inherently promotes
grammatical convergence - languages becoming more similar to each other
through contact; evidence for this, however, remains elusive. A model of how
to study language contact scientifically, Bilingualism in the Community
highlights variation patterns in speech, using a new bilingual corpus of
English and Spanish spontaneously produced by the same speakers. Putting
forward quantitative diagnostics of grammatical similarity, it shows how
bilinguals' two languages differ from each other, aligning with their
respective monolingual benchmarks. The authors argue that grammatical change
through contact is far from a foregone conclusion in bilingual communities,
where speakers are adept at keeping their languages together, yet separate.
The book is compelling reading for anyone interested in bilingualism and its
importance in society.


1. Language contact through the lens of variation; 2. The community basis of
bilingual phenomena; 3. Good data: Capturing language use; 4. Characterizing
the bilingual speaker; 5. Subject pronoun expression: reconsidering the
constraints; 6. Cross-language comparisons: foundations for assessing
contact-induced change; 7. Assessing change and continuity; 8. The most
intimate contact: the bilinguals' two languages; 9. Code-switching without
convergence; 10. Code-switching and priming; 11. Bilingualism in its
linguistic and social context.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Sociolinguistics


Written In: English  (eng)

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