@article {762,
	title = {What a Language Is Good for: Language Socialization, Language Shift, and the Persistence of Code-Specific Genres in St. Lucia},
	journal = {Language in Society},
	volume = {34},
	year = {2005},
	note = {+ pdf},
	month = {2005},
	pages = {327{\textendash}361},
	abstract = {In many bilingual and multilingual communities, certain communicativepractices are code-specific in that they conventionally require, and are constituted
in part through, the speaker{\textquoteright}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 {\textquotedblleft}curse{\textquotedblright} and otherwise assert themselves by means
of a creole language that under most circumstances they are discouraged from
using.
},
	keywords = {bilingualism, code-switching, contact, creole, diglossia, genre, shift, socialization},
	author = {Garrett, Paul B.}
}
