Egun on, señoras y señores parlamentarios. Hizkuntzen alternantzia Eusko Legebiltzarrean

Abstract

This article addresses the language switching between Basque and Spanish in a little studied context: the interventions at the Basque Parliament. A corpus of 30 interventions from 15 speakers has been analysed in order to determine how often, where and what for is language switching used. The results show that this is a common phenomenon among the analysed Basque politicians, particularly in the central part of the text. In addition, seven pragmatic functions that are potentially linked to the parliamentary interventions have also been detected.