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See also: codeswitching and code switching

English

Alternative forms

• codeswitching, code switching

Noun

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code-switching (uncountable)

1. (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

• code-switch (verb)

Translations

phenomenon or practice of alternating between two or more languages

• Arabic: ???????? ???????? m (tanāwab lu?awiyy)
• Catalan: alternan?a de codi (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 語碼轉換 / 语码转换 (zh) (yǔmǎ zhuǎnhuàn)

• 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: ???? (buhojeonhwan), ?? ??? (kodeu seuwiching)
• Me?nkieli: kootinvaihto
• Occitan: alternància de còdi
• Portuguese: alternancia de código f
• Russian: переключе?ние ко?дов n (pereklju?énije kódov), смеше?ние ко?дов n (sme?énije kódov)
• Spanish: alternancia de código f, conmutación lingüística f
• Swahili: kuchanganya msimbo

See also

• accommodation

Verb

code-switching

1. present participle and gerund of code-switch

See also

• Chinglish
• Dunglish
• Finglish
• Franglais
• Hinglish
• Japlish, Engrish
• Konglish
• Runglish
• Spanglish
• Taglish
• pidgin