code-switching

noun

code-switching

noun

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Human sciences, Linguistics, Sciences The phenomenon or practice of alternating between two or more languages or language varieties.

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.

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In addition, our combined syntax-function approach sheds new light on a syntactic analysis of code-switching.1997, Miwa Nishimura, Japanese/English Code-switching, P. Lang, page 36:

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