codeswitching
See also: code-switching and code switching
English
editNoun
editcodeswitching (uncountable)
- Alternative form of code-switching
- 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).
- 2006, Carol Myers-Scotton, Multiple Voices, Wiley, page 241:
- 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,
Verb
editcodeswitching
- present participle and gerund of codeswitch