ABSTRACT
The second part of this volume, which centres around questions of the conversational vs. extra-conversational (ethnographically recoverable) meaning of code-switching, starts out with those authors who favour an approach along the lines of conversation analysis (Li Wei, Alfonzetti). We then move on towards studies which take a more eclectic stance, combining methods of classical conversation analysis with those of a different background (such as Jørgensen, Moyer, Sebba and Wootton). The final two chapters (by Rampton and Stroud) explicitly criticise the use of conversation-analytic methods in the investigation of code-switching, although their own approach is still based on the close analysis of transcribed interactional materials.
