Code-switching

Code-mixing & code-switching

Terms in SOCIOLINGUISTICS for language and especially speech that draws to differing extents on at least two languages combined in different ways, as when a Malay/English bilingual says:
This morning I hantar (= took) my baby tu dekat (to the) babysitter tu lah (particle marking solidarity).

 A code may be a language or a variety or style of a language; the term codemixing emphasizes hybridization, and the term code-switching emphasizes movement from one language to another.


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