دفاتر في اللسانيات والتعليمية
Volume 4, Numéro 1, Pages 205-225
2011-06-30

Code Switching, A Conversational Strategy In Berber?

Authors : Benhattab Abdelkader Lotfi .

Abstract

The present paper is a trial analysis of a Berber-Algerian Arabic- Standard Arabic-French bilingual corpus. The analysis that I will be conducting is couched under a conversational analysis perspective. This perspective is fairly recent in code switching research, and it has proven to be insightful in the interpretation of bilingual phenomena and strategies across diverse sociolinguistic settings. I will be focussing in my paper on the Kabyle and Mzabi minority groups of Oran. These groups have as their mother tongues Berber which is a variety that is unintelligible with Algerian Arabic.

Keywords

Code switching - Berber