Perspectives on Cultural Variability of Discourse and Some Implications for Code-Switching

The final chapter of this volume takes us to the very periphery of our Eurocentric world, namely to Papua New Guinea, but also, as Christopher Stroud argues, to the very periphery of what can be accounted for in code-switching within Western sociolinguistic frameworks centred around notions such as ‘agency, action, identity and social role’ (p. 340).