Code-Switched Greeting by Bilingual Saudi-American Subject: A Case Study

Autor/in	Basabrin, Abrar
Titel	Code-Switched Greeting by Bilingual Saudi-American Subject: A Case Study
Quelle	In: Arab World English Journal, 10 (2019) 1, S. 335-346 PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Basabrin, Abrar)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	2229-9327
Schlagwörter	Forschungsbericht; Code Switching (Language); Bilingualism; Arabs; North Americans; Case Studies; Toddlers; Vocabulary Development; Language Acquisition; English (Second Language); Second Language Learning; Semitic Languages; Speech Communication; Linguistic Theory; Language Processing; Psycholinguistics; Speech Acts; Pragmatics; Interpersonal Communication + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Bilingualismus; Arab; Araber; Case study; Fallstudie; Case Study; Infant; Infants; Toddler; Kleinkind; Wortschatzarbeit; Sprachaneignung; Spracherwerb; English as second language; English; Second Language; Englisch als Zweitsprache; Zweitsprachenerwerb; Arabisch; Hebräisch; Linguistische Theorie; Sprachverarbeitung; Psycholinguistik; Sprechakt; Pragmalinguistik; Interpersonale Kommunikation
Abstract	This paper investigates the myth of children's monolingual brain by conducting a case study of a two-year-old Saudi-American girl, who is in the two-word stage of vocalization, by focusing on a certain speech act, viz., "greeting" and demonstrating how it is heavily code-switched into Arabic/English language(s) with regard to the context of the speech and the greeter/receiver of the greeting identity. The subject has been raised in an English-speaking country milieu (United States of America), while she has been used to speaking Arabic at home. In this regard, the paper highlights the aim of the encoded usage of code-switching utterances in term of addressing the monolingual brain hypothesis. This qualitative study is based on open observations of two continues months of a toddler as the participant of this study aiming at exploring whether children's greeting differ from those of adults and whether this greeting differs between two languages with regard to monolingual brain hypotheses. So far, the study concluded that greeting has never been mixed upon context, though utterances are code-switched. Moreover, the greeting process is comprehended and acquired within the language context as a pragmatic speech act regarding greeter's identity, context, and gender. Findings of this study significantly support the cognitive approach in term of greeting via using a high frequent greeting word among the American culture. As would cognitive linguists suggest, greeting speech act response varies regarding how greeters of each community greet the subject, but not how they greet each other's in a community. Therefore, surprisingly the two-year-old subject perceptually recognizes the fact of receiving two different languages regardless to the monolingual hypothesis. (As Provided).
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Begutachtung	Peer reviewed
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2024/1/01