The Author: Federica Guerini has a degree in Foreign Languages and Literatures from the University of Bergamo, Italy. Before joining the Ph.D. program of the Department of Linguistics of the University of Pavia (2000), she did postgraduate work at the University of Bergamo, where she also worked as an Italian lecturer for the Centre of Italian for Foreigners (Centro di Italiano per Stranieri). At present she works as a Sociolinguistics lecturer at the Faculty of Arts and Philosophy of the University of Bergamo. Her research interests include: African languages, language variation, language contact and language attitudes, multilingual communication, code-switching and conversational analysis.

• Contents: The Ghanaian Community in Bergamo and its Province: a Socio-Demographic and Sociolinguistic Overview – Language Alternation Strategies in a Conversational Framework – Conversational Analysis of Code-Switching Occurrences – Conversational Analysis of Transfer Occurrences.

The Author: Federica Guerini has a degree in Foreign Languages and Literatures from the University of Bergamo, Italy. Before joining the Ph.D. program of the Department of Linguistics of the University of Pavia (2000), she did postgraduate work at the University of Bergamo, where she also worked as an Italian lecturer for the Centre of Italian for Foreigners (Centro di Italiano per Stranieri). At present she works as a Sociolinguistics lecturer at the Faculty of Arts and Philosophy of the University of Bergamo. Her research interests include: African languages, language variation, language contact and language attitudes, multilingual communication, code-switching and conversational analysis.

• Contents: The Ghanaian Community in Bergamo and its Province: a Socio-Demographic and Sociolinguistic Overview – Language Alternation Strategies in a Conversational Framework – Conversational Analysis of Code-Switching Occurrences – Conversational Analysis of Transfer Occurrences.

The Author: Federica Guerini has a degree in Foreign Languages and Literatures from the University of Bergamo, Italy. Before joining the Ph.D. program of the Department of Linguistics of the University of Pavia (2000), she did postgraduate work at the University of Bergamo, where she also worked as an Italian lecturer for the Centre of Italian for Foreigners (Centro di Italiano per Stranieri). At present she works as a Sociolinguistics lecturer at the Faculty of Arts and Philosophy of the University of Bergamo. Her research interests include: African languages, language variation, language contact and language attitudes, multilingual communication, code-switching and conversational analysis.

• Contents: The Ghanaian Community in Bergamo and its Province: a Socio-Demographic and Sociolinguistic Overview – Language Alternation Strategies in a Conversational Framework – Conversational Analysis of Code-Switching Occurrences – Conversational Analysis of Transfer Occurrences.