Code-switching

The clarity provided to the topic of code-switching by Deveraux (2015) was especially helpful, especially in regards to the presentation of the three components, being: situation, audience, and purpose (p. 110). While all of us code-switch naturally (Devereaux, 2015, p. 107), most people do not have an awareness of it and, if aware, would seldom be able to verbalize why they do it. Many individuals might be cognizant of speaking differently to their grandmother than to school friends (the…

Chave, and I. However, most of the interesting aspects of her use of Spanglish was evident through her conversations with her family members. Through close observation it was evident that code switchers or “Spanglish” speakers have a complex way of deciding when and with who it is acceptable and even necessary to code switch. Chave migrated to the U.S. from the Dominican Republic ten years ago, when she was only eight years old. She is now a high school senior. Her parents do not speak…

In this conversation, the point of code switching is “which is” in P script. P explains to A that ATA means American Translator Association. However, he does not translate “which is” to Korean, and just speaks like an English speaker. The reason is that part is hard to translate to Korean. Korean is a postposition language, so they put the described words or sentence before the word, but English is a postposition language such as they can use “which is” to describe the word. Therefore, in this…

interpersonal relationships using lower power vs. higher power (bosses vs. subordinates’ relationship). Based on the authors’ explanation, vertical code switching could be defined as “the act of alternating between behavioral patterns that are directed toward higher-power and lower-power interaction partners”. Whether we are middle managers or not, we code-switch due to our network centrality. This could be from interpersonal relationships with our parents to our siblings, classmates to…

Mandarin that has the accurate meaning of what I am trying to say in English and vice versa. I did some survey among my friends in Taiwan who also code-switch (a lot of them are American missionaries living in Taiwan for a long time or just people who have learned English since they were really young) and the following are the reasons I believe why people code-switch. (1) Specificity. Sometimes it’s hard to find a…

language strategies is the use of code-switching (Velásquez, 2010). Over the last twenty-five years the study of code-switching has become a flourishing research field in second language acquisition. It has received attention from such diverse fields as sociolinguistics, anthropology, language teaching, formal linguistics, and psycholinguistics. (Jalal, 2010) There are lots of definitions about code-switching. Hymes (1991 p.110) proposes that code –switching basically is “the alternate…

language choice, accommodation, code-switching, language interaction, gender, etc. First of all, we start with language choice. For a bilingual person sometimes is difficult to know which language to use for any occasion. Language choice is related with three terms; indexicality, agency and accommodation. First, indexicality is a language change or language variety. For example, when you speak American English and you go to England.…

in slowly changing words, pronunciations, and fundamentals of the language to suit what this region defines as “proper English.” Every region believes that they speak English “correctly,” while every region that differs is considered “wrong.” Code-switching is very common in spoken language. I will say that I believe changing…

Code switching to a formal register may occur when the caregiver is asking something of the child, as in “Molly, could you please clean up your mess!” Informal, colloquial language would arise when the child is being chastised, for example, “Molly, I’ve told…

and thus the practice of code switching is known. Code switching is the ability to alternate between two or three languages in a conversation. With code switching and bilingualism, an individual can have the skills to fit in and to be empathetic. Code switching is an appropriate tactic to use in certain situations in order to fit in. According to npr.org, John Davis, a Spanish teacher, learned African American English from his students and learned the talent of code switching between Standard…