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In:Handbook of Pragmatics: 22nd Annual Installment
Edited by Jan-Ola Östman and Jef Verschueren
[Handbook of Pragmatics 22] 2019
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Code-switching and translanguaging

 | University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
 | North Carolina State University
Published online: 23 December 2019
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Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Code-switching
    • 2.1Code-switching: A historical contextualization
    • 2.2Code-switching in action
    • 2.3Implications for bilingual creativity and code-autonomy
  • 3.Translanguaging
    • 3.1Translanguaging and the paradigm trap
  • 4.Conclusions
  • Notes
  • References
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