Codeswitching with English: Types of Switching, Types of Communities.

Myers-Scotton, Carol

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Publication Date: 1989

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Codeswitching with English: Types of Switching, Types of Communities.

Myers-Scotton, Carol

World Englishes, v8 n3 p333-46 Win 1989

Examines a specific type of code switching that occurs when bilingual peers make relevant their dual and simultaneous membership in the two groups symbolized by the two linguistic varieties involved in the switching pattern. Structural constraints and switching are discussed across code-switching types. (31 references) (Author/OD)

Descriptors: Bilingualism, Code Switching (Language), Discourse Analysis, English, Language Patterns, Language Research, Linguistic Borrowing, Linguistic Theory, Multilingualism, Sociolinguistics, Structural Analysis (Linguistics)

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Language: English

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