The Expression of Evidentiality in French-English Bilingual Discourse
Year:
1999
Volume and number:
, 28
Collection:
, 3
Journal:
, Language in Society
Pages :
, 355-365
Abstract
This study, drawing on data from a large sociolinguistic interview corpus for three Acadian communities of Atlantic Canada, concerns codeswitches involving verbs of opinion or belief (e.g. guess, think, imagine, believe) in French-English bilingual discourse. The codeswitch itself serves to underscore the speaker's stance as to the truth of the proposition -- and, in some cases, to indicate a degree of uncertainty not nuanced by corresponding French language forms. Variation in usage is related to intensity of language contact at the levels of the community and of the individual.
Theme :
AnglophonesBilingualismFrancophones
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