Abstract
AbstractThe present paper seeks to explain code-switching produced by Spanish-English bilingual speakers from the community of Gibraltar from acognitive-pragmatic perspective new perspective based on the dual languagesystem developed by Kecskes (1998) and Kecskes and Papp (2000) to ac-count for bi- and multilingual language development and language use.The reasons for code-switching in Gibraltar are provided in Moyer (1992,1998) 1 in terms of social and culture specific information, conversation andcontext creating devices used in discourse, and structural or syntactic con-straints on the way the two languages are combined in a sentence.The advantage of the dual language model (DLM) is that it integrateslinguistic, conceptual, and socio-cultural information into a single model,provides a theoretical framework—from a psycholinguistic perspective—toexplain the way speakers from a bilingual community such as Gibraltarcombine two languages as a productive and regular communicativepractice, and postulates that the primary cause for code-switching isconceptual-pragmatic rather than syntactic.The DLM is a bilingual production model that integrates the dual lan-guage system (DLS), the language production model of Levelt (1989;1995), and the bilingual language mode theory of Grosjean (1998, 2001).The focus of the model is on conceptualization and the manner in whichconceptual knowledge is lexicalized or mapped onto linguistic forms (i.e.,words, phrases, sentences, utterances) and grammatically formulated. Themain contribution of the DLM is the way it enables conceptual knowledgeacquired along with each language in the case of members of a bilingualcommunity to interact by means of the dual language system consisting ofthe common underlying conceptual base (CUCB) and two distinct lan-guage channels. Switching is made possible by the CUCB that is responsi-ble for the operation of both language channels (Kecskes 1998; Kecskes &Papp 2000). In this first attempt to adapt the DLM to code-switching, the
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