%0 Journal Article %A Ho-Dac, Tuc %D 2017 %T Vietnamese-English bilinguals in Melbourne: social relationships in code-switching of personal pronouns %U https://bridges.monash.edu/articles/journal_contribution/Vietnamese-English_bilinguals_in_Melbourne_social_relationships_in_code-switching_of_personal_pronouns/5063521 %R 10.4225/03/5930c9c4995c4 %2 https://ndownloader.figshare.com/files/8570758 %K Vietnamese language in Australia %K 1959.1/6581 %K Bilingualism %K journal article %K Code-switching %K monash:6581 %K Monash University. Faculty of Arts. School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics. %X This paper investigates the code-switching of personal pronouns in the speech of Vietnamese-English bilinguals in Melbourne. The highly complex system of person reference in Vietnamese has no counterparts in the English speaking world, and is examined in this paper. Relying on Myers-Scotton's Markedness Model (1993), I discuss in some detail the code-switching of English personal pronouns and argue that the switching of personal pronouns is to signal a change in the relationship between the addressor and the addressee. %I Monash University