Today, the notion of 'diglossia' occupies a prominent place in sociolinguistic research. Since the 1960s, when the dominant sense of 'diglossia' was the complementary sociofunctional distribution of two varieties of the same language, the term has been applied - often controvers…
Acknowledgements; Transcription conventions; 1. Introduction; 1.1 Conducting qualitative research; 1.2 Research questions; 1.3 Theoretical framework; 1.4 Previous work on intercultural couples in linguistics; 1.5 Outline of book; 2. Data collection and participants; 2.1 In searc…
"This book introduces the way languages are used in families under multilingual circumstances in Japan, namely Japanese-English interlingual families, and examines what factors influence their language choice, with the aim of arriving at a predictive model of language use. The d…
This book introduces the way languages are used in Japanese-English interlingual families in Japan and explains what factors influence their language choice, with the aim of arriving at a predictive model of language use. It also proposes a taxonomy of interlingual family types …
