Duelling Languages, Duelling Values: Conversational codeswitching in intergenerational disputes in bilingual immigrant families

该项目旨在通过关注一种特定的语言现象，即语码转换--会话中语言的竞争性变化，来调查移民社区家庭价值观的变化。通过对泰恩赛德华人家庭中移民父母和他们在英国出生的孩子之间的语码转换的顺序组织的分析，我们展示了个人需求、社会身份和文化价值观的差异是如何因应一系列互动和社会因素而被协商的。这项研究将对散居和移民社区中家庭价值观的变化提供新的见解，评估现有的跨文化交际和冲突解决理论，并有助于语码转换语用学的一般理论的发展。

This project aims to investigate changes in family values in immigrant communities by focussing on a specific linguistic phenomenon, namely, code switching - the competing alternation of language in conversation. Through an analysis of the sequential organisation of code switching between immigrant parents and their British-born children in Chinese families in Tyneside, we demonstrate how differences in personal needs, social identities and cultural values are negotiated in response to a wide array of interactional and social factors. The research will provide new insights into (changes of) family values in diasporas and migrant communities, evaluate current theories of intercultural communication and conflict resolution, and contribute to the development of a general theory of the pragmatics of code switching.