Date:  Fri, 24 Dec 1993 11:37:50 CST

From:  "Donald M. Lance" <ENGDL[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]MIZZOU1.BITNET>

Subject: Re: modren metathesis



I was a bit hasty in an earlier posting saying that the code-switching I

am familiar with is rarely inter-sentential. A good source of data on

inter-sentential switching is the weekly brodcast of mass at the cathedral

in San Antonio, Texas. We get it here on VISN, cable of course, at noon cst

each Sunday. The senior priest uses much more Spanish than the younger one.

Usually the switch occurs at certain points in the service. They also will

have segments of a sermon in one language and then shift to the other, but

the content is not exactly the same in each language. The older priest shifts

languages much more frequently than the younger one.

Gwyn Williams asks whether the kind of switching that I demonstrated in a

posting last week is the same phenomenon as inter-sentential switching. What

I've seen on VISN does seem to me to be "different" in that it serves a

different purpose discoursally. The kind of switching that I recorded in my

research seemed not to be discoursally motivated. Both Sali and Gwyn have

suggested that the difference may be a matter of degree along a spectrum.

If these behaviors are different phenomena, they are not located at different

points along a spectrum.

This topic may be more appropriate for another List. It's interesting

that the interchange has continued with the topic 'modren metathesis'.

                              DMLance