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Code-Switching in English across Cultures


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Code-Switching in English across Cultures
Looking at language integration & assimilation, diglossia, intersentential shifting, bilingualism and English as second language.
1,350 words (approx. 5.4 pages) | 42 sources | 1993 United States


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" CODE ALTERNATION IN ENGLISH ACROSS CULTURES
As in most new fields of research, labels can be disconcerting and confusing, because they change as new theories see the light, even when such theories are neither new nor bearers of significant modifications. So it is with code alternation, variations of which can be found in code switching, code mixing, code-shifting, code-choice, code-swaying, situational switching, and language switching--all subjects to refinements such as intersentential, intrasentential, diatopic, and diastratal code-switching. "According to estimations, about half of the earth's population speaks at least two languages... The alternating use of more than one language is one of the most striking features of many interactions in bilingual communities" (Auer, 1984:1). Most code-switching research has thus been.."

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Code-Switching in English across Cultures (2012, January 15). Retrieved February 13, 2012, from http://www.academon.com/Essay-Code-Switching-in-English-across-Cultures/20594

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"Code-Switching in English across Cultures" 15 January 2012. Web. 13 Feb. 2012. <http://www.academon.com/Essay-Code-Switching-in-English-across-Cultures/20594>




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