bilingual interactions

[Gaudio, Rudolf]

Thanks, one and all, for your richly informative responses to my query. I will collate them and post the bibliography later in the week. 

Cпасибо большое!

Rudi

On Aug 22, 2011, at 3:06 PM, Gaudio, Rudolf wrote:

> Dear colleagues:
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> 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.
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> And do you know of any scholarship on this phenomenon?
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> Thanks for your help.
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> -Rudi
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> 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
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> tel. +1 914 251 6619
> fax +1 914 251 6603
> rudolf.gaudio at purchase.edu
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