Codeswitching: A bibliography for composition and rhetoric


Rebecca Moore Howard
The Writing Program
Syracuse University



Please note: I'm increasingly using CiteULike and del.icio.us for my bibliographic work. (On both sites you'll need to click on tags of interest.) Browse what's on this page and then check out CiteULike, del.icio.us, CompPile, and the MLA International Bibliography (requires SU ID) for more. A list of all the static bibliographies that I've put online is here.


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Last updated 19 July 2006

Blom, Jan-Petter, and John Gumperz. "The Social Meaning in Linguistic Structure: Code-Switching in Norway." Directions in Sociolinguistics. Ed. John Gumperz and Dell Hymes. New York: Holt, Rinehart, & Winston, 1972. 407-34.

Canagarajah, A. Suresh. "Toward a Writing Pedagogy of Shuttling between Languages: Learning from Multilingual Writers." College English 68.6 (July 2006): 589-604.

DeBose, Charles. "Codeswitching: Black English and Standard English in the African-American Linguistic Repertoire." Codeswitching. Ed. Carol Eastman. Clevedon: Multilingual Matters, 1992. 157-68.

Eastman, Carol, ed. Codeswitching. Clevedon: Multilingual Matters, 1992.

Gardner-Chloros, Penelope. Language Selection and Switching in Strasbourg. Oxford: Clarendon P, 1991.

Gilyard, Keith. Voices of the Self: A Study of Language Competence. Detroit: Wayne State UP, 1991.

Heller, Monica, ed. Codeswitching: Anthropological and Sociolinguistic Perspectives. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 1988.

Heller, Monica. "Language Choice, Social Institutions, and Symbolic Domination." Language in Society 24.3 (September 1995): 373-406.

Kells, Michelle Hall. "Understanding the Rhetorical Value of Tejano Codeswitching." Latino/a Discourses: On Language, Identity, and Literacy Education. Ed. Michelle Hall Kells, Valerie Balester, and Victor Villanueva. Portsmouth, NH: Boynton/Cook, 2004. 24-39.

Myers-Scotton, Carol. "Codeswitching and Types of Multilingual Communities." Language Spread and Language Policy. Ed. Peter Lowenberg. Washington, DC: Georgetown UP, 1988. 61-82.

Myers-Scotton, Carol. Duelling Languages: Grammatical Structure in Codeswitching. Oxford: Clarendon P, 1993.

Myers-Scotton, Carol. "Making Ethnicity Salient in Codeswitching." Language and Ethnicity. Ed. James R. Row. Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 1991. 95-110.

Myers-Scotton, Carol. Social Motivations for Codeswitching: Evidence from Africa. Oxford: Clarendon P, 1993.

Shaughnessy, Mina. Errors and Expectations: A Guide for the Teacher of Basic Writing. New York: Oxford UP, 1977.

Siegel, Jeff. "How to Get a Laugh in Fijian: Code-Switching and Humor." Language in Society 24.1 (March 1995): 95-110.

Sgall, Petr, et al. Code Switching in Czech as a Challenge for Sociolinguistics. Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 1992.

Villanueva, Victor, Jr. Bootstraps: From an American Academic of Color. Urbana, IL: National Council of Teachers of English, 1993.

Wheeler, Rebecca S., and Rachel Swords. Code-Switching: Teaching Standard English in Urban Classrooms." Urbana, IL: National Council of Teachers of English, 2006.

Williams, Robert S., and Kathleen C. Riley. "Acquiring a Slice of Anglo-American Pie: A Portrait of Language Shift in a Franco-American Family." Language Ideologies: Critical Perspectives on the Official English Movement. Vol. 2. Ed. Roseann Duenas Gonzalez. Urbana, IL: National Council of Teachers of English, 2001. 63-90.

Young, Vershawn Ashanti. "Your Average Nigga." College Composition and Communication 55.4 (June 2004): 693-715.