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Hamamra, Bilal; Mayaleh, Asala – Changing English: Studies in Culture and Education, 2023
This article examines the role of code-switching in recreating the place, Palestine, that contemporary Palestinian memoirist Ghada Karmi was expelled from by providing a close analysis of the code-switched expressions and the plurality of voices and perspectives that this linguistic and cultural phenomenon imply in her work "Return: A…
Descriptors: Autobiographies, Authors, Code Switching (Language), Arabs
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Blommaert, Jan – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 1992
The macro-dimension of code switching is examined as observed in a sociolect of Swahili used by academic staff from the University of Dar es Salaam. It is argued that the specific sociohistoric background of Tanzanian society accounts for the social valency of Campus Kiswahili. (Author/LB)
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), College Faculty, Cultural Context, Dialects