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code-switch·ing

(kōd′swĭch′ĭng)
n.
The use of two or more languages or markedly different varieties of a language in a single social interaction: "He chatted with taxi drivers and strangers about the drenching humidity or about which restaurants were good, casually code-switching to Taiwanese for jokes, Mandarin for information, and English for translation and one-word exclamations" (Ken Chen).

code′-switch′ v.
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"Bilingualism in/as Social Action: A Sequential Approach to Code Switching." Paper read at the ESF-Symposium on "Code-Switching in Bilingual Studies: Theory, Significance and Perspectives." Barcelona, 21-23 March, preliminary version, 1991.
To sort out the issue about these terminologies language change can be bifurcated into two linguistic divisions known as Code mixing (CM) and code switching (CS).
The present model employs a threefold distinction between borrowing, code-mixing and code switching. Borrowings "are typically known and used by both bilingual and multilingual speakers, they are widely distributed through the community, and they typically reveal a process of historical incorporation" (Herbert 2001: 225-226).
According to Grosjean (2010), code switching is a distinctive way of speaking in which the speaker switches back and forth between L1 and L2.
Compared to the most recent previous comprehensive survey of languages and linguistics of South Asia, the 1969 Current Trends in Linguistics 5, this volume places more emphasis on language contact and convergence, and draws insights from sociolinguistics into such matters as code switching and code mixing, diglossia, and South Asian languages in the diaspora.
Code switching in early English: Historical background and methodological and theoretical issues.
The chapter thus provides persuasive evidence about code switching and contrastive analysis as 'potent tools of language and culture for transforming language arts practice ...' (Wheeler & Swords, 2015, p.
"Why are we allowed to be curious about everything except race?" NPR reporter Shereen Marisol Meraji asked when she launched into "Audio Code Switching: Tackling Race on the Radio" at Third Coast, the largest international conference for audio producers, last November.
Code switching and collusion: Classroom interaction in Botswana primary schools.
Appel and Muysken (1987) assert that code switching is an "everyday" phenomenon in multilingual societies.