Open AccessПереключение кодов или «смешанный лект»?<br>(Code switching or “mixed lect”?)
Author(s) -
David Piñeda
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
poljarnyj vestnik
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1890-9671
pISSN - 1500-7502
DOI - 10.7557/6.1289
Subject(s) - code switching , conversation , scrutiny , structuring , code (set theory) , computer science , linguistics , kola peninsula , syntax , function (biology) , code mixing , programming language , political science , natural language processing , law , biology , philosophy , genetics , set (abstract data type) , geochemistry , geology
In this article I consider code-switching between Russian and Saami in the Saami community on the Kola Peninsula. Among the existing theoretical approaches to code-switching, the conversation analysis-based approach appears to be most suitable for data under scrutiny. Following Auer's (1998, 1999) distinction between code-switching proper, language mixing and fused lect, it is argued that some, but not all, forms of mixed Russian-Saami language can function as a conversation structuring devices