Social Motivations For Codeswitching - Carol Myers-Scotton.

Analyst Peter Auer suggests that code-switching does not simply reflect social situations, but that it is a means to create social situations. Markedness Model The Markedness Model, developed by Carol Myers-Scotton, is one of the more complete theories of code-switching motivations.

Social Motivations For Codeswitching by Carol Myers-Scotton, 1993, Clarendon Press edition, in English.

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Myers-Scotton's Markedness model (1983, inter alia) and face-action theory (Brown and Levinson, 1987) provide the theoretical framework for examining the motivations for codeswitching (CS) by low-status individuals in their interactions with high-status individuals from outside their social group.

This thesis examines which factors influence the use of English code-switching (CS) by Norwegians, and in the course of this examination, discusses what the social motivations are for such behaviour. The theoretical approaches of, among others, Myers-Scotton (1993).

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Carol Myers-Scotton's Matrix Language-Frame (MLF) model is the dominant model of insertional code-switching. The MLF model posits that there is a Matrix Language (ML) and an Embedded Language (EL). In this case, elements of the Embedded Language are inserted into the morphosyntactic frame of the Matrix Language.

Carol Myers-Scotton is a Carolina Distinguished Professor of Linguistics at the University of South Carolina. She is a specialist in sociolinguistics and language contact phenomena with a special interest in East and Southern African linguistics. In 1993, she published two volumes on codeswitching.

Codeswitching may be broadly defined as the use of two or more linguistic varieties in the same conversation. Using data from multilingual African context, Carol Myers-Scotton advances a theoretical argument which aims at a general explanation of the motivations underlying the phenomenon.She treats codeswitching as a type of skilled performance, not as the 'alternative strategy' of a person.

Carol Myers-Scotton develops a model of the morphosyntactic constraints on codeswitching and concludes that the principles governing codeswitching are the same everywhere. Excerpt At some time or another, many readers of this volume have shaken their heads in amazement at overhearing speakers who were carrying out a conversation in two languages, apparently freely drawing from both linguistic.

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The goal of this thesis is to look in detail at code-switching in bilingual communication and to contribute to the research on code-switching with the help of the present study on Russian-German bilinguals. I would like to say some words to my personal background and my motivation for having chosen code-switching as the topic for my thesis.