Participant- and discourse-related code-switching by Thai—English bilingual adolescents

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2009-02-10

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Chanseawrassamee, Supamit; Shin, Sarah J.; Participant- and discourse-related code-switching by Thai—English bilingual adolescents; Multilingua - Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication 28,1; Pages 45–78 (2009); https://www.degruyter.com/view/j/mult.2009.28.issue-1/mult.2009.003/mult.2009.003.xml

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bilingual adolescents
bilingual code-switching
conversation analysis
discourse-related code-switching
Thai-English bilingualism
participant-related code-switching

Abstract

This paper attempts to show ways in which two Thai brothers (aged 9 and 13) living temporarily in the United States, employ bilingual code-switching to organize their conversation. Using the sequential analysis developed by Auer (1984, 1995), this paper describes how the two boys employ codeswitching to negotiate the language for the interaction and accommodate the language competences and preferences of conversational participants, as well as to organize conversational tasks such as turn-taking, preference marking, repair, and bracketing of side-sequences. The sequential analysis suggests that code-switching is used by the two boys as an additional communicative resource to achieve particular conversational goals.