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  2. Code-switching - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  3. Situational code-switching - Wikipedia

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    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.

  4. Metaphorical code-switching - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  5. Code-mixing - Wikipedia

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    Unlike code-switching, where a switch tends to occur at semantically or sociolinguistically meaningful junctures, [c] this code-mixing has no specific meaning in the local context. A fused lect is identical to a mixed language in terms of semantics and pragmatics, but fused lects allow less variation since they are fully grammaticalized.

  6. Some Black workers say if they stopped code switching at work ...

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    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, ...

  7. Loanword - Wikipedia

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    [1] [2] Borrowing is a metaphorical term that is well established in the linguistic field despite its acknowledged descriptive flaws: nothing is taken away from the donor language and there is no expectation of returning anything (i.e., the loanword). [3]

  8. Black employees are code switching at work because and many ...

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    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 ...

  9. Analysis: Donald Trump questioning Kamala Harris ... - AOL

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    Code-switching can help increase the likelihood of receiving fair treatment, getting quality service or landing job opportunities for people who are disadvantaged or overlooked due to systemic racism.