Foreigner talk, code switching and the concept of trouble

‘Et le präis direct etikett?’ Non-overlapping repertoires in workplace communication in Luxembourg

“…and omits the (obligatory) article (der or ein) before the noun kliEnt ('customer'). These are clear instances of what Ferguson (1975) and Hinnenkamp (1987; and others have described as Foreigner Talk. Another way of explaining this interactional strategy is in terms of communication accommodation theory (CAT), the process by which "interactants adjust their communication so as to either diminish or enhance social and communicative differences between them" (Giles 2009: 278), where Foreigner Talk can be seen as a form of overaccommodation (Ylänne-Mc Ewen/ Coupland 2000).…”

Talking like a ‘zerolingual’: Ambiguous linguistic caricatures at an urban secondary school

“…Even though not all of the above fits the category well (Chakib's half-imitation of Turkish does perhaps not entirely agree with the definition of talking Illegal given at the beginning of section 5), these examples point out that images of what is perceived as incompetent speech were not necessarily of the tertiary kind but could equally feature as secondary foreigner talk, where simplified or broken language is used to address second language learners, mostly implying a symbolic degradation of those spoken to (Ellis, 1994:251-267;Ferguson, 1975;Hinnenkamp, 1987;Rampton, 1995:288-289). And it is in this way that talking Illegal could play a fundamental part in local classroom politics.…”

Review article

“…In their meticulous reassessment of Gricc's cooperativity principle, Sarangi and Slembrouck moreover conclude that 'it makes little sense to attempt a categorization of Situation types äs either "cooperative" or "non-cooperative"' (1992: 138), since categories such äs goal sharing and goal imposition are manifested at various communicative levels. Hinnenkamp (1987Hinnenkamp ( , 1991, finally, has proven cooperativity to be also a temporal variable. His analysis of an interaction between a Turkish migrant and a German beggar shows how at a specific time in the conversation the cooperativity is dropped and the talk goes on without common purposes.…”