The PhD programme in Advanced English Studies announces the
celebration of the online seminar ‘Multilingual practices:
code-switching’ (see abstract below), taught by M. Carmen Parafita
Couto (UVigo/Leiden University).
The seminar will be conducted in English and taught online through
UVigo Campusremoto.
Dates: 25 March, 22 April and 20 May, from 15:30 to 18:30 (9 hours)
Attendance certificates will be issued.
If you are interested in attending the seminar, please send email to
jperez@uvigo.es before 25 February.
Abstract.- Multilinguals often use more than one language in the same
conversation. This seminar will provide an in-depth examination of
this phenomenon, known as code-switching. We will begin with a
historical overview to get an understanding of how syntactic
constraint-based approaches to codeswitching arose in the literature.
We will then review contemporary code-switching work from corpus- and
lab-based perspectives. Methodological issues will be examined, paying
attention to the limitations of the data and data collection paradigms
that have constituted the basis for the theoretical claims put forward
in the literature. Finally, by looking at studies that examine
code-switching from structural, social and psycholinguistic
perspectives concurrently, we will illustrate the power of
cross-disciplinary research paradigms in unravelling the complexities
of intra-sentential code-switching.
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Javier PEREZ GUERRA
FFT. Universidade de Vigo. Campus Universitario. E-36310 Vigo (Spain)
http://lvtc.uvigo.es/people/jperez