Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 November 2008
In this article, the bilingual speech of members of Spanish, Portuguese, and Algerian communities in France is examined. After having conducted a systematic inventory of all the instances of code-switching in the corpus, the authors propose a model for their classification. This is followed by a quantitative analysis of a sample of interactions. Finally, a qualitative analysis is presented which aims to determine the different functions fulfilled by code-switching according to the speaker's intentions and the dynamics of the interaction.