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    STUDIA PHILOLOGIA - Issue no. 2 / 2008  
         
  Article:   KODE-WECHSEL UND DIE BEDEUTUNG LEXIKALISCHER ANPASSUNG / CODE-SWITCHING AND THE IMPORTANCE OF LEXICAL ADAPTATION.

Authors:  ŞTEFAN GENCĂRĂU. 		 
       
         
  Abstract:  Our wish in this text is to discuss the results of linguistic contact mainly on the lexical level. The text we are going to present here was given to us by a Romanian speaker belonging to a community in which the consequences of linguistic interferences are a defining process for the majority of the speakers. The process presented in such texts was primarily considered to be the result of foreign language acquisition. By indicating the user of such a text, we would like to eliminate the possibility of interpreting the phenomenon we have mentioned before as being the effect produced by the learning of a foreign language. It is true. When discussing changes in the linguistic code, only the defining characteristics of the phases of foreign language acquisition and the existing interactions were taken into consideration. It was proved that during the stages of vocabulary and linguistic structures acquisition the succession of the code plays an important role. It underlines certain breaks, changes of focus on the object which is the purpose of communication, role and function changes of the interlocutors. The change of code that we are presenting doubtlessly includes sociolinguistic values different from the stages of foreign language acquisition.

Key words: linguistic code, foreign language acquisition, linguistic interaction, code-switching

 
         
     
         
         
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