Bilingual Couples Talk
Download Bilingual Couples Talk full books in PDF, epub, and Kindle. Read online free Bilingual Couples Talk ebook anywhere anytime directly on your device. Fast Download speed and no annoying ads. We cannot guarantee that every ebooks is available!
Bilingual Couples Talk
Author | : Ingrid Piller |
Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
Total Pages | : 327 |
Release | : 2002-10-10 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9027296863 |
Download Bilingual Couples Talk Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
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.