Doing (BI)lingualism: Language alternation as performative construction of online identities

Pragmatics

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 361-391

  Tsiplakou, Stavroula ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Code mixing; Code switching; Computer mediated discourse; Ingroup; Language alternation; Performativity

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956345922     PISSN: 10182101     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1075/prag.19.3.04tsi     Document Type: Article

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