Bilingual Couples Talk

Bilingual Couples Talk The Discursive Construction of Hybridity - Studies in Bilingualism

Hardback (10 Oct 2002)

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Publisher's Synopsis

This sociolinguistic study of the linguistic practices of bilingual couples describes the conditions, processes and results of private language contact. It is based on a unique corpus of more than 20 hours of private conversations between partners in bilingual marriages. Adding to its breadth of coverage, these private conversations are supplemented with larger public discourses about international couplehood. The volume thus offers a corpus-driven investigation of the ways in which ideologies of gender, nationality and immigration mediate linguistic performances in private cross-cultural communication. The author embraces social-constructionist, feminist and postmodern approaches to second language learning, multilingualism and cross-cultural communication. In contrast to other titles in the field which have focused almost exclusively on the socialization of bilingual children, this book explores what it means to one's sense of self to become socialized into a second language and culture as a late bilingual.

Book information

ISBN: 9789027241368
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Imprint: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Pub date:
Number of pages: 326 .
Weight: 570g
Height: 225mm
Width: 177mm
Spine width: 27mm