code-switching
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See also: codeswitching and code switching
English
Alternative forms
Noun
- (linguistics) The phenomenon or practice of alternating between two or more languages or language varieties.
- Synonym: code-mixing
- As with many bilingual families, it was normal to observe frequent code-switching at our dinner table.
- Within the English language, a good example of code-switching in daily life is weaving back and forth between African American Vernacular English and General American English.
- 1997, Miwa Nishimura, Japanese/English Code-switching, P. Lang, page 36:
- In addition, our combined syntax-function approach sheds new light on a syntactic analysis of code-switching.
- 2008, Elena Gluth, Code-switching: grammatical, pragmatic and psycholinguistic aspects, Bod Third Party Titles:
- 2009, Barbara E. Bullock, Almeida Jacqueline Toribio, The Cambridge Handbook of Linguistic Code-switching, Cambridge University Press:
Related terms
- code-switch (verb)
Translations
phenomenon or practice of alternating between two or more languages
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Verb
code-switching
- present participle and gerund of code-switch
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