Vol.3, No 1, 2004 pp. 37 - 46
UDC 81'246.2

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CODE-SWITCHING: STRUCTURE AND MEANING
Jovana Dimitrijević
University of Melbourne

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In the past, detailed structural description has largely been absent from code-switching research informed by the principles of conversation analysis (CA) (e.g. Auer, 1998). In this paper, I will try to argue in favor of situating a sequential analysis of code-switching in bilingual conversation within a structural description of bilingual speech. A structural description contributes to the interpretive analysis in that: (1) the analytic process itself is made transparent in its entirety; and (2) the structural variety of code-switches is revealed, as is the potential for items identical in terms of structure to differ in terms of interactional meaning.

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CODE-SWITCHING: STRUKTURA I ZNAČENJE Do danas, detaljan opis strukture dvojezičnog govora retko je prisutan u studijama koje posmatraju code-switching iz perspektive uobličene principima analize konverzacije (AK) (npr. Auer, 1998). U ovom radu, pokušaću da pokažem da opis strukutre dvojezičnog govora doprinosi analizama AK tipa u tom da: (1) sam analitički proces postaje transparentan u celosti; i (2) ovakav pristup otkriva raznovrsnost struktura dvojezičnog govora koje možemo uvrstiti u code-switching, kao i mogućnost da se elementi identični po strukturi mogu razlikovati po značenju u dvojezičnoj interakciji.