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Jan-Petter Blom and John J. Gumperz coined the linguistic term 'metaphorical code-switching' in the late sixties and early seventies. They wanted to "clarify the social and linguistic factors involved in the communication process ... by showing that speaker's selection among semantically, grammatically, and phonologically permissible alternates occurring in conversation sequences recorded in ...
Code-mixing is a thematically related term, but the usage of the terms code-switching and code-mixing varies. Some scholars use either term to denote the same practice, while others apply code-mixing to denote the formal linguistic properties of language-contact phenomena and code-switching to denote the actual, spoken usages by multilingual ...
Situational code-switching is the tendency in a speech community to use different languages or language varieties in different social situations, or to switch linguistic structures in order to change an established social setting. Some languages are viewed as more suited for a particular social group, setting, or topic more so than others.
Code-switching: Switching between two different languages or dialects. The chameleon effect: ... As m’Cheaux noted, pandering is part of effective communication. A third-grade teacher sounds ...
Code switching is a well known phenomenon in U.S. workplaces. Usually a burden shouldered by workers of color, the term refers to the practice of changing your language, ...
Contact-induced changes can be achieved by a variety of mechanisms, from code-switching to code alternation to acquisition strategies. Language evolution , and the emergence of contact-induced varieties, can be regarded as speakers making selections from a pool of linguistic variants made available to them.
A third of Black employees who code switch say it has had a positive impact on their current and future career, and 15% are more likely than workers on average to think code switching is necessary ...
The markedness model (sociolinguistic theory) proposed by Carol Myers-Scotton is one account of the social indexical motivation for code-switching. [1] The model holds that speakers use language choices to index rights and obligations (RO) sets, the abstract social codes in operation between participants in a given interaction.