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Article published In: Language and Dialogue
Vol. 9:3 (2019) ► pp.402–417

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Stance-taking, accommodation, code switching and language crossing

A case study

 | University of Mississippi (USA)
Published online: 29 October 2019
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https://doi.org/10.1075/ld.00049.zhu
Abstract
This study involves an in-depth analysis of a sociolinguistic interview between the researcher and a college student in his junior year, herein named “Alex”. Within the entirety of the transcription, I conducted a detailed investigation of the interviewee’s linguistic features and strategies. He attempted to achieve several communicative goals, such as streamlining the conversation by utilizing stance taking, communication accommodation, language crossing and code switching. In this paper, I elaborate on the specific linguistic strategies he used to take a stance and construct his identity through narrative. Specifically, he created the identity of a motivated, intelligent yet humble foreign language learner.
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Stance enactment and identity
  • 3.Communication Accommodation Theory (CAT)
  • 4.Code switching and language crossing
  • 5.Methodology
  • 6.Findings and discussion
    • 6.1Stance enactment and identity building
    • 6.2Communication accommodation
    • 6.3Code switching and language crossing
  • 7.Conclusion
  • References
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