code-switching

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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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Through a comparison of two articles from the print version of Essence magazine, which uses Standard English almost exclusively, with two articles taken from its online version, which uses liberal codeswitching between Standard English and African-American Vernacular English, I analyze both the stylistic choices contained in the magazine's two versions and the discourse in which they are situated.
Negotiation of meaning and codeswitching in online tandems.
The third section discusses codeswitching and linguistic borrowing, noting that findings point to an early convergence with adult codeswitching norms during the preschool years.
On the level of language, one is tempted to say, as did a student of our acquaintance, "Codeswitching (alternating between different languages in the same conversation) is a code." The article by Lamarre, et al.
Dans ces exemples, il s'agit bien de codeswitching: on remarque cependant que les verbes encastres ne sont pas conjugues.
"CodeSwitching In Literature." Third NZ Language and Society Conference, Auckland, 1993.
In his discussion of the musical techniques and materials used by various micromusics, Slobin introduces the sociolinguistic concepts of 'code' and 'codeswitching'.
(10) According to Ana Celia Zentella codeswitching for bilinguals is "a way of saying that they belong to both worlds, and should not be forced to give up one for the other" (1997, 114).
Codeswitching in the language of immigrants: The case of Franbreu.