Analyzing cross-linguistic and cross-cultural contacts through multilingual corpora

Isabelle Léglise (1)

1 SeDyL - Structure et Dynamique des Langues

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.

Mots clés: Multilingualism and interculturality; multilingual communication; heterogeneous corpora

Domaines: Linguistique

Isabelle Léglise. Analyzing cross-linguistic and cross-cultural contacts through multilingual corpora. Contactos interlinguisticos e interculturales, Universidad del Valle, Nov 2015, Santiago de Cali, Colombia. ⟨hal-01251008⟩