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A multilingual network in the re-activation of Italian as the third language among German speakers: Evidence from interactions

Franceschini, Rita (2023)
A multilingual network in the re-activation of Italian as the third language among German speakers: Evidence from interactions.
In: Zeitschrift für Interkulturellen Fremdsprachenunterricht : ZIF, 2000, 5 (1)
doi: 10.26083/tuprints-00012089
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Title: A multilingual network in the re-activation of Italian as the third language among German speakers: Evidence from interactions
Language: English
Date: 24 May 2023
Place of Publication: Darmstadt
Year of primary publication: 2000
Journal or Publication Title: Zeitschrift für Interkulturellen Fremdsprachenunterricht : ZIF
Volume of the journal: 5
Issue Number: 1
DOI: 10.26083/tuprints-00012089
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Origin: Secondary publication from TUjournals
Abstract:

The purpose of this paper is to document a number of multilingual practices in which more than two languages are used in interactions. The data were gathered in a multilingual context in the mostly German-speaking town of Basle (Switzerland). Tape recordings of sales conversations are the source for the following observations. The data were collected in the following manner: an Italian-speaking customer B I shall call her Anna in the examples below B enters a shop, asks a question or makes a request, which triggers an immediate response from a German-speaking shop-assistant. Of 160 addressees, one third answered in Italian quite fluently and without showing any particular sign of surprise; approximately one third chose to speak German or rather, most of the time, Swiss-German, and one third reacted in unexpected and varied ways.

Status: Publisher's Version
URN: urn:nbn:de:tuda-tuprints-120892
Classification DDC: 400 Language > 400 Language, linguistics
Divisions: 02 Department of History and Social Science > Institut für Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft > Sprachwissenschaft - Mehrsprachigkeit
Date Deposited: 24 May 2023 17:03
Last Modified: 22 Jul 2024 08:12
URI: https://tuprints.ulb.tu-darmstadt.de/id/eprint/12089
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