From uuneo!sugar!claird Tue Sep 21 08:05:30 CDT 1993 Article: 3353 of sci.anthropology Xref: uuneo sci.lang:21182 alt.books.reviews:1232 sci.anthropology:3353 Newsgroups: sci.lang,alt.books.reviews,sci.anthropology Path: uuneo!sugar!claird From: claird@NeoSoft.com (Cameron Laird) Subject: [LING] code-switching (was: About mimicry and imitation) Organization: NeoSoft Communications Services -- (713) 684-5900 Date: Mon, 20 Sep 1993 13:18:09 GMT Message-ID: Followup-To: sci.lang,sci.anthropology References: <27k54a$qqb@kruuna.Helsinki.FI> In article <27k54a$qqb@kruuna.Helsinki.FI> lennes@kruuna.Helsinki.FI (Mietta E Lennes) writes: . . . >stuff about how parrots 'learn to speak'. I am also interested in >bilingual or multilingual people and what happens when they switch >languages. I would be very happy to hear views from someone who is >studying these things. . . . "Code-switching" was a (deservedly) fashionable topic in some circles in the '80s. My academic connections are too rusty to report on its current status, but I understand that publication of Myers-Scotton, Carol 1993 Social Motivations for Code-switching: Evidence from Africa. Clarendon: Ox- ford has been one of the highlights of this year. I haven't seen the book myself, yet, and can only report that: the author worked (works?) in East Africa (Kenya, Zimbabwe, elsewhere?); and the prose is in academic-standard, that is, there is a high density of technical terms and distinctions. My guess is that a look at it will reward your attention. -- Cameron Laird claird@Neosoft.com (claird%Neosoft.com@uunet.uu.net) +1 713 267 7966 claird@litwin.com (claird%litwin.com@uunet.uu.net) +1 713 996 8546