Neurological Basis of Code-Switching?
Bilinguals switching between codes have been interesting cases for research in sociolinguistics and the ethnography of communication. For instance, many bilinguals identify one language as the "we-code" and the other language as the "they-code," switching according to both conversational and social contexts. This phenomenon leads to fascinating studies of linguistic communities, language ideology, and social identity.
A recent study by Kuan Kho and others at the Rudolf Magnus Institute in Utrecht sheds some light on the neurological basis of code-switching as bilingual patients treated for epilepsy would switch involuntarily from one code to the next.
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This could lead to interesting conversations between linguistic anthropologists and other language scientists, including neuroscientistsÂ.
posted by Alexandre @ 9:47 AM
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Interesting study. From the few readings I have done on code-switching, I tend to see weaknesses in such an understanding of individuals' intentions and categorizations, and Gumperz's "we/they" code seems to me as only one of many interpretations that can be done of code-switching... I tend to agree with the critique of such a conception made by conversation analysts following an organizational approach (such as Auer and Gafaranga). It seems to me that this latter approach relies less on people's assumed intentions and conscience; they rather analyze the interaction/utterance itself in order to discover the meanings that emerge from it.
I would be interested to know if the people studied tried to engage in any repair when they 'unvoluntarily' switched languages.
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