Mushin2010

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Mushin2010
BibType ARTICLE
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Author(s) Ilana Mushin
Title Code-switching as an interactional resource in Garrwa/Kriol talk-in-interaction
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Tag(s) EMCA, Code-Switching, Garrwa, Kriol, Conversation, Australian Talk, Aboriginal Conversation
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Year 2010
Language English
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Journal Australian Journal of Linguistics
Volume 30
Number 4
Pages 471–496
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DOI 10.1080/07268602.2010.518556
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Abstract

This paper is a study of bilingual talk among Garrwa/Kriol speakers in the communities of Borroloola and Robinson River, NT, focussing on choices speakers make between traditional and non-traditional Indigenous languages in ordinary conversations. The analysis presented here supports the view of code-switching, recently summarized by Matras, as an interactional resource—a means by which speakers can structure their talk around the local contingencies of an interaction. Language choice may be symbolic of a particular social stance or ‘social arena’ in a given context, but the fact of language shift (regardless of the direction of the shift), may be equally significant in demarcating conversational activities, and marking shifts in perspective.

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