01868nas a2200229   4500008004100000245013000041210006900171260000900240300001400249490000700263520109700270653001701367653001901384653001201403653001101415653001401426653001001440653001001450653001801460100002101478856013901499       2005                        eng d00aWhat a Language Is Good for: Language Socialization, Language Shift, and the Persistence of Code-Specific Genres in St. Lucia0 aWhat a Language Is Good for Language Socialization Language Shif  c2005  a327–3610 v343 aIn many bilingual and multilingual communities, certain communicativepractices are code-specific in that they conventionally require, and are constituted
in part through, the speaker’s use of a particular code. Code-specific
communicative practices, in turn, simultaneously constitute and partake of
code-specific genres: normative, relatively stable, often metapragmatically
salient types of utterance, or modes of discourse, that conventionally
call for use of a particular code. This article suggests that the notions of code
specificity and code-specific genre can be useful ones for theorizing the relationship
between code and communicative practice in bilingual0multilingual
settings, particularly those in which language shift and other contact-induced
processes of linguistic and cultural change tend to highlight that relationship.
This is demonstrated through an examination of how young children in
St. Lucia are socialized to “curse” and otherwise assert themselves by means
of a creole language that under most circumstances they are discouraged from
using.
10abilingualism10acode-switching10acontact10acreole10adiglossia10agenre10ashift10asocialization1 aGarrett, Paul, B  uhttps://genreacrossborders.org/ja/biblio/what-language-good-language-socialization-language-shift-and-persistence-code-specific-genres