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Bautista, Maria Lourdes S. – Asia Pacific Education Review, 2004
The alternation of Tagalog and English in informal discourse is a feature of the linguistic repertoire of educated, middle- and upper-class Filipinos. This paper describes the linguistic structure and sociolinguistic functions of Tagalog-English code switching (Taglish) as provided by various researchers through the years. It shows that the…
Descriptors: Sociolinguistics, Discourse Analysis, Sentence Structure, Code Switching (Language)
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Bautista, Maria Lourdes S. – Studies in Philippine Linguistics, 1977
The structure of the Noun Phrase (NP) is analyzed in a corpus featuring Tagalog-English code-switching. Instances of first language (L1) NP's appearing as subjects and complements in second language (L2) sentential units are examined to gain insight into code-switching. Ten thirty-minute tapes of a radio program in Tagalog provided the corpus for…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Code Switching (Language), English (Second Language), Language Research