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</script> </div> </div> <div class="right-col main-content topic-page"> <div class="topic-title">Code-switching</div> <div class="topic-tabs"> <div class="topic-tab selected go-link"><a href="/topics/Code-switching">Topic Home</a></div> <div class="topic-tab go-link"><a href="/discussion/Code-switching">Discussion<div class="num-threads-circle ">1</div></a></div> <div class="topic-tab go-link"><a href="/definition/Code-switching">Definition</a></div> </div> <div class="topic-content"> <div class="tp-section"> <div class="tp-header"> <div class="tp-header-icon"><img src="/images/icons/black_arrow.jpg" /></div> <div class="tp-header-headline">Overview</div> </div> <div class="tp-content article"> <div class="tp-ad"> <div class="default-ad"> </div> <script type="text/javascript">  </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script> </div> In <a class='greylink1' onMouseover='ShowPop("68392",this,"linguistics.gif", event)' onMouseout='HidePop("68392")' href="/topics/Linguistics">linguistics</a><span class="hp" id="m68392"><div class="hpHeader">Linguistics</div><div class="hpContent"><div class="hpImage" id="i68392"></div>Linguistics is the scientific study of human language. Linguistics can be broadly broken into three categories or subfields of study: language form, language meaning, and language in context....</div><br></span>, <b>code-switching</b> is the concurrent use of more than one <a class='greylink1' onMouseover='ShowPop("17764",this,"language.gif", event)' onMouseout='HidePop("17764")' href="/topics/Language">language</a><span class="hp" id="m17764"><div class="hpHeader">Language</div><div class="hpContent"><div class="hpImage" id="i17764"></div>Language may refer either to the specifically human capacity for acquiring and using complex systems of communication, or to a specific instance of such a system of complex communication...</div><br></span>, or language <a class='greylink1' onMouseover='ShowPop("67135",this,"noimage.gif", event)' onMouseout='HidePop("67135")' href="/topics/Variety_(linguistics)">variety</a><span class="hp" id="m67135"><div class="hpHeader">Variety (linguistics)</div><div class="hpContent">In sociolinguistics a variety, also called a lect, is a specific form of a language or language cluster. This may include languages, dialects, accents, registers, styles or other sociolinguistic variation, as well as the standard variety itself...</div><br></span>, in conversation. <a class='greylink1' onMouseover='ShowPop("65879",this,"noimage.gif", event)' onMouseout='HidePop("65879")' href="/topics/Multilingualism">Multilinguals</a><span class="hp" id="m65879"><div class="hpHeader">Multilingualism</div><div class="hpContent">Multilingualism is the act of using, or promoting the use of, multiple languages, either by an individual speaker or by a community of speakers. Multilingual speakers outnumber monolingual speakers in the world's population. Multilingualism is becoming a social phenomenon governed by the needs of...</div><br></span>鈥攑eople who speak more than one language鈥攕ometimes use elements of multiple languages in conversing with each other. Thus, code-switching is the use of more than one linguistic variety in a manner consistent with the <a class='greylink1' onMouseover='ShowPop("89936",this,"noimage.gif", event)' onMouseout='HidePop("89936")' href="/topics/Syntax">syntax</a><span class="hp" id="m89936"><div class="hpHeader">Syntax</div><div class="hpContent">In linguistics, syntax is the study of the principles and rules for constructing phrases and sentences in natural languages....</div><br></span> and <a class='greylink1' onMouseover='ShowPop("13994",this,"phonology.gif", event)' onMouseout='HidePop("13994")' href="/topics/Phonology">phonology</a><span class="hp" id="m13994"><div class="hpHeader">Phonology</div><div class="hpContent"><div class="hpImage" id="i13994"></div>Phonology is, broadly speaking, the subdiscipline of linguistics concerned with the sounds of language. That is, it is the systematic use of sound to encode meaning in any spoken human language, or the field of linguistics studying this use...</div><br></span> of each variety.<br /> <br /> Code-switching is distinct from other <a class='greylink1' onMouseover='ShowPop("38051",this,"noimage.gif", event)' onMouseout='HidePop("38051")' href="/topics/Language_contact">language contact</a><span class="hp" id="m38051"><div class="hpHeader">Language contact</div><div class="hpContent">Language contact occurs when two or more languages or varieties interact. The study of language contact is called contact linguistics.Multilingualism has likely been common throughout much of human history, and today most people in the world are multilingual...</div><br></span> phenomena, such as <a class='greylink1' onMouseover='ShowPop("86166",this,"noimage.gif", event)' onMouseout='HidePop("86166")' href="/topics/Loanword">borrowing</a><span class="hp" id="m86166"><div class="hpHeader">Loanword</div><div class="hpContent">A loanword is a word borrowed from a donor language and incorporated into a recipient language. By contrast, a calque or loan translation is a related concept where the meaning or idiom is borrowed rather than the lexical item itself. The word loanword is itself a calque of the German Lehnwort,...</div><br></span>, <a class='greylink1' onMouseover='ShowPop("10224",this,"noimage.gif", event)' onMouseout='HidePop("10224")' href="/topics/Pidgin">pidgin</a><span class="hp" id="m10224"><div class="hpHeader">Pidgin</div><div class="hpContent">A pidgin , or pidgin language, is a simplified language that develops as a means of communication between two or more groups that do not have a language in common. It is most commonly employed in situations such as trade, or where both groups speak languages different from the language of the...</div><br></span>s and <a class='greylink1' onMouseover='ShowPop("34281",this,"noimage.gif", event)' onMouseout='HidePop("34281")' href="/topics/Creole_language">creoles</a><span class="hp" id="m34281"><div class="hpHeader">Creole language</div><div class="hpContent">A creole language, or simply a creole, is a stable natural language developed from the mixing of parent languages; creoles differ from pidgins in that they have been nativized by children as their primary language, making them have features of natural languages that are normally missing from...</div><br></span>, <a class='greylink1' onMouseover='ShowPop("83652",this,"noimage.gif", event)' onMouseout='HidePop("83652")' href="/topics/Calque">loan translation (calques)</a><span class="hp" id="m83652"><div class="hpHeader">Calque</div><div class="hpContent">In linguistics, a calque or loan translation is a word or phrase borrowed from another language by literal, word-for-word or root-for-root translation.-Calque:...</div><br></span>, and language transfer (language interference). </div> </div> <div class="tp-section"> <div class="tp-header"> <div class="tp-header-icon"><img src="/images/icons/black_arrow.jpg" /></div> <div class="tp-header-headline">Unanswered Questions</div> </div> <div class="tp-content"> <div class="tp-post"> <div class="tp-post-icon"><img src="/images/icons/question_mark.gif" /></div> <div class="tp-post-headline"><a href="/discussionpost/Does_anyone_know_who_first_coined_the_term_codeswitching_and_in_what_publication_48977" class='bluelink2'>Does anyone know who first coined the term "code-switching" and in what publication?</a></div> </div> <div class="more-button-container"><div class="more-button go-link"><a href="/discussion/Code-switching">More</a></div></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="footer"> <a href="http://www.silverdaleinteractive.com/">Silverdale Interactive</a> 漏 2024. 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