Table of Contents

Introduction – Language contact phenomena and code-switching – Main approaches to CS – Bilingualism and code-switching in childhood – The Selvaggi-Plastina Integrated Model of Plurilingual Code-Switching (IMPCS) – The empirical study – Case study 1: Calabrese Minorities – Case study 2: Italophone Minority of Istra – Case study 3: Italian-English Bilingual Children – Plurilingual code-switching: a comparison across minority communities – References – Appendices – Index

About the Author

Dino Selvaggi holds a PhD in Linguistics (University of Calabria, 2016) with a dissertation on plurilingual code-switching in standard and local varieties.

Visiting Researcher at The University of Edinburgh in 2015 and at the University «Juraj Dobrila» of Pula in 2014, his research interests are the socio-psycholinguistic aspects of code-switching, plurilingualism and language policy.