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Kam's Account of Transitional Unilateral Code-Switching

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Hymes, Dell – Anthropological Linguistics, 1976

Discusses the transitional unilateral code-switching observed in speakers of Hakka when speaking Cantonese. (CLK)

Descriptors: Cantonese, Code Switching (Language), Language Patterns, Language Research

Inequality in Language: Taking for Granted.

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Hymes, Dell – Working Papers in Educational Linguistics, 1992

Social meaning includes evaluation of languages themselves. Linguists often say all languages are equal. This is true in regard to potential, not true of actual state. All varieties of language share with pidgins and creoles the condition of being the result of a particular history of use, specialization, elaboration, and loss. A conversational…

Descriptors: American Indian Languages, Communication (Thought Transfer), Finnish, Foreign Countries