Cromdal2004

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Cromdal2004
BibType ARTICLE
Key Cromdal2004
Author(s) Jakob Cromdal
Title Building bilingual oppositions: code-switching in children's play
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Tag(s) EMCA, Conversation Analysis, Social interaction, Children, Children's play, Bilingual, Code-switching, Dispute
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Year 2004
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Journal Language in Society
Volume 33
Number 1
Pages 33–58
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DOI 10.1017/S0047404504031021
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Abstract

This article investigates children's procedures for constructing oppositional stances in argumentative exchanges. While most previous research on children's arguments entails a monolingual bias, the present analysis focuses on bilingual practices of code-switching in disputes emerging during play activities. Drawing on more than ten hours of video-taped play interaction in a bilingual school setting, it is shown how the language contrast arising through code-switching displays and highlights the affective intensity of oppositional stances. Sequential analyses show how code-switching works to escalate social opposition, often to the peak of an argument, resulting in subsequent backdown or full termination of the dispute. Moreover, in certain participant constellations code-switching may be used to constrain opponents' opportunities to engage in further adversative interaction. Finally, it is argued that an approach to play discourse concerned with children's methods for accomplishing accountable actions allows for a view of bilingualism as socially distributed; that is, as an emergent and interactionally managed feature of discourse.

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