Black employees are nearly three times more likely to code-switch than white employees, according to a new poll. Here’s why.

No one talks to their mother the same way they talk to their friends in the lunchroom or on the basketball court. Code-switching or code-meshing, on the other hand, requires an actual code.

The way we mix languages and speech patterns is an apt metaphor for the way race, ethnicity and culture intersect in our lives. Introducing our new blog, Code Switch.

Code-switching is a term widely used to describe when somebody changes their accent, tone of voice and mannerisms depending on what space they’re in.

Disadvantages to code-switching This pressure to switch how you speak and behave to fit in comes at a cost. Due to the historic class background of RP, the pressure to code-switch is ...

This study investigates how the process of structural convergence common in many bilingual communities (cf. Clyne 1987, 1994) interacts with the process of code-switching. Data on Serbian/English code ...

Code-switching is a survival technique, a tool to help someone seamlessly blend into different social and professional situations – particularly where you are a minority.