Lingua e dialetto nella conversazione
Language and dialect in a conversation

Summary/Abstract: This paper deals with the issue of relations between language and dialect in conversation analysis with special emphasis being put on phenomena defined in English and American research work as code-switching and code-mixing. These phenomena usually appear in the context of bilingualism and diglossia (cfr. Ferguson 1959), where two national languages come into contact. However, within the Italian speech community, interlinguistic contact occurs between language and dialect, which provides a good basis for considering specific functions of pragmalinguistic nature which may be implied by the use of both the linguistic codes in concrete communication situations.

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