Codeswitching
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Codeswitching is a noun meaning present participle and gerund of codeswitch.
Meaning
present participle and gerund of codeswitch.
More Meanings
- Alternative form of code-switching.
Example Sentences
We deal only with the clause, because it is only within the clause that the language varieties involved in codeswitching are in contact.
1998, RELC Journal, Volumes 29-30, SEAMEO Regional Language Centre, page 190, Hendrik Boeschoten discusses the questions of codeswitching and language change and the possibility of a codeswitching norm.
2004, Michelle Hall Kells, Valerie M. Balester, Victor Villanueva, Latino/a Discourses, Boynton/Cook Publishers, Heinemann, page 27, What these beliefs fail to account for is the fact that codeswitching is a universal phenomenon of language contact, a mechanism of language shift as well as language change (Myers-Scotton 210).
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