Code-Switching, Languages in Contact and Electronic Writings

Foued Laroussi is full Professor of Sociolinguistics and Languages in Contact at Rouen University (France). He received his PhD in 1991 in French-Arabic code-switching from the same university. His research interests include multilingualism, language policy, and multilingual societies especially in the Maghreb and Mayotte. He is also Director of LiDiFra (Research Center on Linguistics, Didactics and Francophone Studies).

Contents: Li Wei: Forewords - Foued Laroussi: Introduction - Dora Carpenter: Harissa.com: Narrative(s), code-switching and nostalgia - a case study - Dawn Marley: Code-switching in websites for the Moroccan diaspora - Régine Delamotte/Cecile Desoutter: Languages in Contact in Business e-mails and Student Forums - Fabien Lienard/Marie-Claude Penloup: Language contacts and Code-switching in electronic writing: the case of the blog - Victoria Goddard: Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me: the power of words in the making of a new public sphere - Marion Blondel/Jeanne Gonac'h/Fabien Lienard: Deaf or signing people using SMSs in France: a specific type of writing in a bimodal bilingual context - Isabelle Pierozak: Dynamics of language contact in Creole-speaking electronic community spaces - Foued Laroussi: Electronic Arabic-French code-switching.