Plurilingual Code-Switching between Standard and Local Varieties

Table Of Contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• About the author(s)/editor(s)
• About the book
• This eBook can be cited
• Contents
• Dedication
• Acknowledgements
• Acronyms
• Introduction
• 1. Language contact phenomena and code-switching
• 1.1. Language contact phenomena and code-switching
• 1.1.1. CS, transfer and interference
• 1.1.2. CS and translanguaging
• 1.2. Modalities: oral vs written CS
• 2. Main approaches to CS
• 2.1. The sociolinguistic approach towards bilingual CS
• 2.1.1. Axes of variation
• 2.1.2. Discourse strategies
• 2.1.3. Triggering, convergence and CS constraints in the socio-structural approach
• 2.1.4. CS and plurilingual language policy
• 2.1.5. Sociolinguistic approach and language revitalisation
• 2.2. The structural-grammatical approach towards bilingual CS
• 2.2.1. The Matrix Language Frame Model
• 2.2.2. Marked vs unmarked linguistic choices
• 2.3. The psycholinguistic approach and key psycholinguistic variables
• 2.3.1. Attitude and self-perception
• 2.3.2. Acceptability, the optimality theory and the interface hypothesis
• 2.3.3. Lexical access in bilinguals and plurilinguals
• 2.3.4. The language mode concept
• 2.3.5. Visual vs verbal stimulus
• 2.4. The Lexicalist-Minimalist approach
• 2.5. Other minimalist approaches and mixed approaches
• 3. Bilingualism and CS in childhood
• 3.1. Bilingual children profiles
• 3.2. Parental input: educational strategies and children’s output
• 3.3. The role of input and educational method
• 3.4. CS in case of incomplete acquisition, attrition and ultimate attainment
• 4. The Selvaggi–Plastina Integrated Model of Plurilingual Code-Switching (IMPCS)
• 4.1. Adopting non-polarised judgement/evaluation scales
• 4.2. The choice of a common code to test the model
• 4.2.1. Properties of standard Italian
• 4.3. The socio-psycholinguistic variables
• 5. The empirical study
• 5.1. Data collection and analysis: materials, instruments and procedure
• 6. Case study 1: Calabrese Minorities
• 6.1. Case study 1A. CS in Italian–Arbëreshë–Calabrese
• 6.1.1. Research questions, method, materials, participants
• 6.1.2. Claimed use of languages and attitudes on Arbëreshë–Calabrese–Italian CS
• 6.1.3. Findings on self-perception of Arbëreshë borders, culture, identity, education and language policy
• 6.1.4. Neuter attitude on intra-community Italo-Arbëreshë CS
• 6.2. Case study 1B. Italian–Spanish CS
• 6.2.1. Pragmatics, implicatures and CS
• 6.2.2. Research questions, methods, materials, participants
• 6.2.3. Claimed use of and attitudes on Spanish–Italian CS
• 6.2.4. Implicature test on Spanish–Italian CS
• 6.2.5. A production task on the active use of implicatures in Italian
• 6.2.6. Negative impact of long Spanish–Italian code-switches on the perception of implicatures vs positive impact of short code-switches
• 6.3. Case study 1C. The Italian–Occitan–Calabrese CS
• 6.3.1. Research questions, methods, materials, participants
• 6.3.2. Personal and linguistic biography of the Occitan informants
• 6.3.3. Passive competence in other varieties, domains of use and attitudes on the principal languages
• 6.3.4. Findings on attitudes towards Occitan, Italian and other languages
• 6.3.5. Self-perception of Occitan–Italian–Calabrese CS
• 6.3.6. Occitan–Italian bilingual education and language policy
• 6.3.7. Occitan–Italian–Calabrese intrasentential CS as a frequent conversational strategy of mixed families and young people
• 6.4. Case study 1D. The Italian–Filipino–English CS
• 6.4.1. Research questions, methods, materials, participants
• 6.4.2. Self-perception of active vs passive competence in Filipino, English, Italian and Calabrese and language mode
• 6.4.3. Attitudes towards Filipino–English–Italian CS and acceptability judgements
• 6.4.4. Positive attitudes towards Filipino–English–Italian CS and preference for Taglish intrasentential CS
• 7. Case study 2: Italophone Minority of Istra
• 7.1. Sociolinguistic situation of Italian and plurilingualism in Croatia
• 7.1.1. Research questions, methods, materials, participants
• 7.1.2. Italo-Croatian plurilingual repertoire
• 7.1.3. Context and age of acquisition of Italian and Croatian
• 7.1.4. Self-perception of frequency and domains of use of Italian, Croatian and other varieties
• 7.1.5. Self-perception of awareness, frequency and socio-psycholinguistic variables of Italian–Istrovenetian–Croatian–Čakavski CS
• 7.2. Lexical access study. Methods, materials and participants
• 7.2.1. Overall response latency
• 7.2.2. MRL per social class
• 7.2.3. MRL per situational context
• 7.2.4. MRL per communicative function
• 7.3. Istra as an example of pluridirectional plurilingualism influencing CS and lexical access
• 8. Case study 3: Italian–English Bilingual Children
• 8.1. Sociolinguistic situation of English, Gaelic and Italian in Scotland
• 8.2. Research questions, methods, materials, participants
• 8.3. Acceptability ratings
• 8.3.1. Raw frequencies per single child
• 8.3.2. Mean acceptability ratings per bilingual children group
• 8.4. Picture description task
• 8.4.1. Expressive richness per child
• 8.4.2. Picture description task. Borrowings and CS
• 8.5. Impact of age of acquisition and educational method on acceptability ratings
• 8.6. Impact of age of acquisition on CS usage
• 9. Plurilingual CS: a comparison across minority communities
• 9.1. The crucial socio-psycholinguistic variables
• 9.2. Overall findings on attitudes, patterns and acceptability of plurilingual CS
• 9.3. The IMPCS as a step forward towards a mixed socio-psycholinguistic-grammatical theory of plurilingual CS
• References
• Appendix 1
• Appendix 2
• Appendix 3
• Appendix 4
• Appendix 5
• Appendix 6
• Appendix 7
• Appendix 8
• Appendix 9
• Index
• Series index