Multidisciplinary Approaches to Code Switching

The volume presents a selection of contributions by leading scholars in the field of code-switching. In the past the phenomenon of code-switching was studied within different subfields of linguistics and they all took their own perspectives on code-switching without taking into account findings from other subdisciplines. This book raises a question of a much broader multidisciplinary approach to studying the phenomenon of code-switching; calls for integration of disciplines; and illustrates how frameworks from one subfield can be applied to models in another. The volume includes survey chapter

Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Psycholinguistic studies: 1. Empirical approaches to the study of code-switching in sentential contexts / Jeanette Altarriba and Dana M. Basnight-Brown -- 2. Language selection and performance optimisation in multilinguals / Renata F. I. Meuter -- 3. The neurocognition of switching between languages: A review of electrophysiological studies / Janet G. van Hell and Marijt J. Witteman -- 4. Sources of triggering in code switching / Kees de Bot, Mirjam Broersma and Ludmila Isurin -- 5. Triggered code switching: Evidence from Dutch-English and Russian-English bilinguals / Mirjam Broersma, Ludmila Isurin, Sybrine Bultena, and Kees de Bot -- 6. Two speakers, one dialogue: An interactive alignment perspective on code-switching in bilingual speakers / Gerrit J. Kootstra, Janet G. van Hell, and Ton Dijkstra -- 7. Language interaction as a window into bilingual cognitive architecture / Viorica Marian -- Sociolinguistic and linguistic studies: 8. Trying to hit a moving target: On the sociophonetics of code-switching / Barbara E. Bullock and Almeida Jacqueline Toribio -- 9. Which language? Participation potentials across lexical categories in codeswitching / Janice L. Jake and Carol Myers-Scotton -- 10. Adjectives and word order: A focus on Italian-German codeswitching / Katja Francesca Cantone and Jeff MacSwan -- 11. On the unity of contact phenomena and their underlying mechanisms: The case of borrowing / Donald Winford -- 12. Codeswitching as one piece of the puzzle of language change: The case of Turkish yapmak / Ad Backus -- 13. Transfer and code-switching: Separate territories but common concerns on the border / Terence Odlin -- Index -- Multidisciplinary Approaches to Code-Switching