code-switching
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See also: codeswitching and code switching
English
[edit ]Alternative forms
[edit ]Noun
[edit ]code-switching (countable and uncountable , plural code-switchings )
- (linguistics ) The phenomenon or practice of alternating between two or more languages or language varieties.
- Synonym: code-mixing
- As with many bilingual families, it was normal to observe frequent code-switching at our dinner table.
- Within the English language, a good example of code-switching in daily life is weaving back and forth between African American Vernacular English and General American English.
- 1997, Miwa Nishimura, Japanese/English Code-switching, P. Lang, page 36:
- In addition, our combined syntax-function approach sheds new light on a syntactic analysis of code-switching.
- 2008, Elena Gluth, Code-switching: grammatical, pragmatic and psycholinguistic aspects , Bod Third Party Titles:
- 2009, Barbara E. Bullock, Almeida Jacqueline Toribio, The Cambridge Handbook of Linguistic Code-switching , Cambridge University Press:
Related terms
[edit ]- code-switch (verb)
See also
[edit ]Translations
[edit ]phenomenon or practice of alternating between two or more languages
- Arabic: تَنَاوَب لُغَوِيّ m (tanāwab luḡawiyy)
- Catalan: alternança de codi (ca) f
- Chinese:
- Estonian: koodivahetus (et)
- Finnish: koodinvaihto
- French: alternance de code (fr) f, alternance codique (fr) f
- German: Code-Switching (de) n, Sprachwechsel (de) m, Kodewechsel m, Kode-Umschaltung f
- Indonesian: alih kode (id)
- Irish: códmhalartú m
- Japanese: コードスイッチング (kōdosuitchingu)
- Korean: 부호전환 (buhojeonhwan), 코드 스위칭 (kodeu seuwiching)
- Meänkieli: kootinvaihto
- Occitan: alternància de còdi
- Persian: رمزگردانی (fa) (ramz-gardâni)
- Portuguese: alternância de código f
- Russian: переключе́ние ко́дов n (pereključénije kódov), смеше́ние ко́дов n (smešénije kódov)
- Spanish: alternancia de código f, conmutación lingüística f, transmudación lingüística f, transmudamiento lingüístico m, trastrocamiento lingüístico m
- Swahili: kuchanganya msimbo
- Ukrainian: перемикання кодів (peremykannya kodiv)
Verb
[edit ]code-switching
- present participle and gerund of code-switch