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Grammatical Order in Talk in Two Languages

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As I have indicated in Section 1.2, order is the possibility of social action. Without order, social action is impossible. We have also seen that language alternation can be seen as an issue of order in talk as social action. Therefore, the role of analysts is to account for its orderliness. As indicated in Torras and Gafaranga (2002) and expanded on in Gafaranga (2007), the territory of research on language alternation can be represented, in the form of a flow chart, as in Table 3.1.

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Gafaranga, J. (2007). Grammatical Order in Talk in Two Languages. In: Talk in Two Languages. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230593282_3

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