The Possibility of Code-Switching: Motivation for Maintaining Multilingualism  

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Myers-Scotton, Carol

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Anthropological Linguistics (ada di JSTOR) vol. 24 no. 4 (1982), page 432-444.
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This paper makes the claim that a major reason for maintaining more than one dialect or language in the same speech community is that switching between such codes is a major source of conversational implicatures. It extends Grice's (r975) characterization of conversational implicature by arguing that such implicatures also arise when addressees calculate the significance of code selection. Code-switching data from a multilingual African speech community are presented. The general question which this paper addresses is the following: why do speakers maintain more than one language in situations of daily contact with other speakers when many of them share the same linguistic repertoire? Wouldn't it be more efficient if just one language were used in all situations? The question in its most general form, then, is this: why are multilingual communities multilingual? We can easily as certain how they became multilingual, but the question is still there: Why do they remain multilingual? ) There are several ways to address this question. The most obvious way would be to examine the maintenance of multilingualism from the intergroup perspective. An obvious hypothesis would then be: multilingual communities remain multilingual because of the function of the different languages as tools of both positive and negative identification for the subgroups within the community; that is, different codes are maintained because they serve as social markers for different subgroups.

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