Linguistic elements such as phonemes, lexemes, and syntactic or morphological rules
cannot be taken for granted as the shape in which border-making elements come. From the …

Focusing on urban youth culture and language crossing, this foundational volume by Ben
Rampton has played a pivotal role in the sha** of language and ethnic identity as a …

Abstract Language is a social phenomenon and variation is inherent to its social nature.
Recently, there has been a surge of interest within the computational linguistics (CL) …

Based on an ethnographic study comprising interviews with and observations of 96 globally
distributed members of six software development teams, we propose a model that captures …

NE INCIDENT DURING my years as a PhD student changed my views on Oacademic
research considerably: I was drafting a joint paper with my supervisor, Lesley Milroy, and in …

Abstract This chapter traces Family Language Policy (FLP) research from its origins in
sociolinguistic approaches to child bilingualism and details how examining language input …

Code-switching—the alternating use of two languages in the same stretch of discourse by a
bilingual speaker—is a dominant topic in the study of bilingualism and a phenomenon that …

The pedagogical and sociocultural functions of teachers' code-switching are an important
factor in achieving the dual goals of content learning and language learning in bilingual …

Aims: The authors develop a contrast between grounded and ungrounded language
ideologies, defining grounded ideologies as those which are anchored empirically and …

The second part of this volume, which centres around questions of the conversational vs.
extra-conversational (ethnographically recoverable) meaning of code-switching, starts out …