Books by Carol (Professor of Linguistics and English Myers-Scotton

A study of the structural side of a common practice among bilinguals: the use of two or more languages within the same sentence. The author concludes that there are universally present principles which govern the structural outlines of such sentences.

This book deals with codeswitching - the use of two or more different languages in the same conversation. Using data from multilingual African contexts, Carol Myers-Scotton advances an original theory applicable to any society: speakers change languages in order to negotiate a change in the tenor of the conversation, conveying warmth or anger, solidarity or power, by their linguistic choices.