Non-convergent discourse

A non- convergent discourse ( NCD) or bilingual conversation is a conversation in which operate the respective interlocutors consistently different languages.

The term ' NCD ' was introduced by the Dutch-speaking sociologists Reitze Jonkman. It differs on the societal level two basic justifications for lying, not to agree on a common entertainment Language:

1 active inadequate language skills Interlocutors who use these grounds different language variants, can understand each other, but speak not practical for the same language. This is relatively easy in those cases where the languages ​​are related, as in the language pairs Spanish - Portuguese or Danish - Norwegian, but can also occur in bilingual regions. Example of this is the most accepted principle in political bodies of Switzerland that each subscriber is speaking his native language ( Chacun à sa langue principle).

2 ethnic marking The term ethnic marking refers to the motivation to keep his identity in his own language to express. When two ethnic groups live side by side in an area, and both speak of principle, connected to their identity language, carried an NCD.

According Jonkman addition there may also personal factors are subject to NCD, for example, if the caller is already as long as use of different languages ​​, that this type of entertainment has become for them unmarked, normal understanding way, even if not one of the above social justifications moved far beyond the talking about.

• Oral Communication
• Linguistics