Multilingual Children’s Motivations to Code-Switch: A Qualitative Analysis of Code-Switching in Dutch-English Bilingual Daycares

Sczepurek, Nina-Sophie; Aalberse, Suzanne; Verhagen, Josje

doi:10.3390/languages7040274

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“…However, for political or cultural reasons, switching the language to English is also another form of organic solidarity in the tourism word, where English is the solidarity language where political issues and possible misunderstandings are set aside and organic solidarity is constructed. As Sczepurek et al (2022) has implied, code switching is socio-politically motivated, and social cohesion is also one of the motives. The use of solidarity kin terms also symbolically strengthens the solidarity feelings to a family-like relationship.…”

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English and Co-Construction of Solidarity between Language Agents and Tourists in Tourism Information Service

Yusra

2023

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A substantial number of studies have been completed with respect to the use of English and social solidarity in broader contexts of cross-cultural communications including tourist–host interactions in tourism settings, but little, if any, is understood about the use of English and solidarity in hectic and tightly scheduled international airport settings. This study fills the gap by explicating how English is used by Tourist Information Center (TIC) staffs and incoming tourists at Lombok International Airport (LIA), Lombok, Indonesia, to contextually symbolize solidarity among them. Data were collected in more than a year of intensive participant and non-participant ethnographic observations of real-time interactions at the TIC in the LIA. Recordings, introspective, retrospective, and prospective interviews with the staff and the tourist respondents, as well as note takings of the contexts and the situations of communicative events, were the main means of data collection, and these data were analyzed using integration of sociological analyses of solidarity and ethnographic analyses of communicative interactions. The study elucidates ideological views on the service and explicates how speech accommodation, style convergence, code switching, and kinship terms have been employed as strategies for creating symbolic solidarity.

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English and Co-Construction of Solidarity between Language Agents and Tourists in Tourism Information Service

Yusra

2023

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“…A speaker interaction using a secret code refers to the practice in which a speaker encodes a message using another language in order to transmit it confidentially, making it accessible only to the speakers of the target group he or she wants to address (Maratab et al 2015;Sczepurek et al 2022). Often, in the realisations of the phenomenon, a third actor is also included, who does not participate in the intra-group communication and who uses their knowledge of the code to act as a hidden listener of the discourse being transmitted (O'Sullivan 2011).…”

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Multilingualism as a Functional Element, a Useful Category for the Study of the Construction and Translation of Linguistically Diverse Discourse

Hurtado-Malillos

2023

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This article is a discursive and equivalence-generating study of the use of the multilingual property as a narrative transmission mechanism in audiovisual texts. Specific functions can be constructed and different events and aspects of the plot can be presented through the introduction of linguistic variation and its deliberate application to achieve defined purposes. The analysis is based on functionalist approaches to the study of fiction and translation and on the binary branching classification model of solution types for determining textual problems in translation based on the form these adopt. This article presents the findings of multilingual property identification and translation related to the application of this forms- and functions-based approach. Several classifications of solution types are also developed with representative examples extracted from film and series.

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“…Since the 1990s, researchers have studied early child code-switches in a variety of language combinations: German-French (Meisel, 1994); English-Spanish (Deuchar, Quay, 1998); English-German (Bauer et al, 2002); Norwegian-English (Lanza, 2004); French-English (Paradis et al, 2000;Comeau et al, 2003;Kuzyk et al, 2020); Finnish-Swedish (Rontu, 2007); Estonian-English (Vihman, 2016(Vihman, , 2018; English-Mandarin (Yow et al, 2018); German-English (Lanvers, 2001;Quick, Hartman, 2021); Cantonese-English (Lam, Matthews, 2020); Spanish-English and French-English (Smolak et al, 2020); Spanish-English (Gross et al, 2022); Dutch-English (Sczepurek et al, 2022); German-French and Turkish-Italian (Schächinger Tenés et al, 2023).…”

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Early code-switches in young Russian bilingual siblings

Chirsheva

2023

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The number of bilinguals and multilinguals of all age groups, including the youngest ones, constantly grows in many countries of the world, which explains the topicality of the study. While researchers explore various aspects of bilingual development, linguists concentrate their efforts on the analysis of bilingual speech, including code-switches. The author deals with Russian-English code-switches in the utterances of two siblings at the earliest stages of their bilingual development - before they were 36 months old. The children had acquired two languages since their first month in a monoethnic Russian family, their first language being Russian and their second (non-native) language being English. The aim of the study is to reveal specific structural, semantic, and pragmatic characteristics of mixed utterances observed in early code-switches of the siblings. The author argues that children’s code-switches at the earliest stages within one family reflect specific features of the communicative situations where children have to cope with the choice between the two languages spoken by their adult interlocutors. It is shown that the application of the Matrix Language Frame Model to the analysis of early childhood bilingual speech is possible, but has several restrictions and limitations related to incomplete and imperfect acquisition of both grammars. The originality of the research is not only in the use of specific data (the earliest stage of bilingual speech observed in simultaneous Russian-English dual-language development), but also in the employment of the Matrix Language Frame Model to study them. This work can contribute to the research of typical features of emerging code-switches in developmental perspective.

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Multilingual Children’s Motivations to Code-Switch: A Qualitative Analysis of Code-Switching in Dutch-English Bilingual Daycares

Cited by 6 publications

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English and Co-Construction of Solidarity between Language Agents and Tourists in Tourism Information Service

English and Co-Construction of Solidarity between Language Agents and Tourists in Tourism Information Service

Multilingualism as a Functional Element, a Useful Category for the Study of the Construction and Translation of Linguistically Diverse Discourse

Early code-switches in young Russian bilingual siblings

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