Social factors for code-switching in Tunisian business companies: A case study

Multilingua

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 425-458

  Baoueb, Lamia Bach ^a  

^a Université de Jendouba   (Tunisia)

Author keywords

Marked vs. unmarked CS; Situational stylistic linguistic CS; Social constraints on code switching (CS); Tunisian Arabic French CS; Tunisian Arabic Modern Standard Arabic English CS; Tunisian business speakers (TBSs)

Indexed keywords

EID: 77950982798     PISSN: 01678507     EISSN: 16133684     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/mult.2009.019     Document Type: Article

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