Analyzing cross-linguistic and cross-cultural contacts through multilingual corpora
Résumé
I show how cross-linguistic and cross-cultural contacts may be analyzed through the precise examination and annotation of spontaneous multilingual corpora.
Everyday life interaction in a hospital or a school in French Guiana for example exhibits all sorts of cross-cultural contacts resulting in heterogeneous multilingual speech turns.
I discuss a careful methodology to analyze the various phenomena we may find in those recordings involving contact-induced language variation and change, codeswitching, code-mixing, nonstandard practices, L2 varieties, styles of doing being multilingual, interlanguage, crossing etc. I discuss the categorization of these linguistic resources and the specific context for communication.