This essay explores sociolinguistic implications in the novel This Is How You Lose Her by Junot Diaz. I investigate this literary work of Diaz in terms of the usage of code-switching by applying an adaptation of conversation analysis and a theoretical framework provided by Brown and Levinson (1999) that suggests that code-switching can be used to achieve interactional goals with other speakers. Also, I argue for widespread support of allowing multilingualism to be a more significant part of learning in the Swedish classroom. The conclusion drawn from this study tells us more about how politeness and code-switching can be applied in literary form and that different switches are used in different speech acts depending on which face is being threatened. I have also presented examples of how teachers can use Diaz’s novel to conduct a literary or linguistic project using multilingual literature to raise awareness of sociolinguistics and language variations in alignment with The Swedish National Agency for Education (2011) directives
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:sh-41713 |
| Date | January 2020 |
| Creators | Mohamad, Aso |
| Publisher | Södertörns högskola, Institutionen för kultur och lärande |
| Source Sets | DiVA Archive at Upsalla University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Student thesis, info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis, text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
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