Code-switching in managing a face-threatening communicative task: Footing and ambiguity in conversational interaction in Taiwan

Hsi Yao Su*

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研究成果: 雜誌貢獻期刊論文同行評審

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摘要

This study investigates a Taiwanese bilingual speaker's code-switching practices in three telephone conversations that she initiates, all of which involve a common communicative task considered highly face-threatening for both parties in the context of contemporary Taiwan. Using both qualitative and quantitative methods, this study suggests that different backgrounds of the conversation participants, such as generation and place of residence, may influence the initiator's pattern of code-switching. This study also illustrates that, while on the sequential level code-switching serves to organize the internal structure of the conversations, on the interactional level it can be used simultaneously with other linguistic strategies to negotiate interpersonal relationships in a face-threatening situation and is but one among a variety of resources circulating in the society available to bilingual speakers in performing various tasks in their daily interactions. This study further demonstrates how code-switching should be understood alongside notions such as footing (Goffman, 1981) and politeness (Brown and Levinson, 1987), arguing that an adequate study of interactional code-switching should be situated within a larger study of linguistic practices and social interaction.

原文英語
頁(從 - 到)372-392
頁數21
期刊Journal of Pragmatics
41
發行號2
DOIs
出版狀態已發佈 - 2009 2月

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • 語言與語言學
  • 語言和語言學
  • 人工智慧

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