All quiet on the filmic front? Codeswitching and the representation of multilingual Europe in La Grande Illusion (Jean Renoir, 1937) and Joyeux Noël (Christian Carion, 2005)

Codeswitching, defined linguistically as ‘the use of more than one language in the course of a single communicative episode’, is usually studied in the context of real situations. This article contends that any study of codeswitching in film must take into account not merely realism but the context...

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Published in:	Journal of Romance Studies Vol. 10; no. 2; pp. 37 - 53
Main Author:	Smith, Alison
Format:	Article
Published:	Berghahn Books Summer 2010
Subjects:	Joyeux Noël (Film) La Grande Illusion (Film) Code switching (Linguistics) Language & languages in motion pictures
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