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Moradi, Hamzeh; Chen, Jianbo – SAGE Open, 2022
The socio-psychological variables that affect bilinguals' choices of code-switching (CS) and code-mixing (CM) as a verbal strategy make prediction of their occurrence almost impossible. This research investigates the social motivations and socio-pragmatic aspects of Chinese-English CS/CM among Chinese undergraduate students. Using a questionnaire…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Code Switching (Language), Chinese, English (Second Language)
Holmes, Janet – Te Reo: Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of New Zealand, 1969
This article reviews certain generatively-based ideas on transactional behavior current in anthropology and discusses their relevance for sociolinguistics. The author finds that whereas sociolinguists tend to ignore such factors as social change and social mobility, anthropologists such as F. Barth ("Models of Social Behavior," 1966) express the…
Descriptors: Anthropology, Behavior Patterns, Bilingualism, Code Switching (Language)