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BETWEEN THE LANGUAGES CODE-SWITCHING IN BILINGU...

This book is about the use of two languages in everyday life. Bilingualism is a facet of nearly
every country in the world and code-switching is a widespread characteristic of bilingual
speech. An obvious and at the same time interesting aspect is that bilinguals will  of course 
stay within one language when talking to monolinguals. However  when talking to other
bilinguals  they will probably use both languages. Thus  in bilingual conversations  they often
switch from one language to another and frequently even within an utterance. Such kinds of
switches call for a special competence of the two languages involved. But how well the
bilinguals have to know each of the languages is a justifiable question. These switches are not
arbitrary since they may depend on the situation of the conversation  the topic of the
conversation  the emotional aspects involved  the language preference of the speaker and the
need to express the own identity. The goal of this book is to look in detail at code-switching
in bilingual communication with the help of the present study on Russian-German bilinguals.

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