code-switching

The phenomenon or practice of alternating between two or more languages or language varieties.

Noun

  1. The phenomenon or practice of alternating between two or more languages or language varieties.
    • 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.
    • In addition, our combined syntax-function approach sheds new light on a syntactic analysis of code-switching. - 1997, Miwa Nishimura, Japanese/English Code-switching, P. Lang, page 36:

    Synonyms: code-mixing

Forms

codeswitching code switching

Related

code-switch accommodation

Verb

  1. present participle and gerund of code-switch

Forms

codeswitching code switching

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