This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract This qualitative study investigates the code-switching patterns of my daughter, a bilingual preschooler (age 2 to 2:8 years) who is being ...

Have you found yourself altering how you speak when you find yourself in a more formal situation? Do you tone down your accent or stay away from words that may only be known in the area you are from?

Alfaro, Ph.D., is associate vice president of international affairs and professor of multilingual and global education at San Diego State University. She lives in Escondido. The visceral and powerful ...

You'd never chat to your boss in the same way you speak to friends in the pub, that's just common sense. But changing how you speak and act around different groups of people happens a lot and can ...

Traditionally linguists have bemoaned the fact that the general public knows little of what we do because the subject isn’t taught in schools. But that has changed over the past 20 years or so, as the ...

"Every single one of us has our own understanding about code-switching. In my world, it's the code-switching of my gender, of how I express myself with my ethnicity. And sometimes, you know, sometimes ...

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. Many black people feel that they have to ...

In an article for Encyclopaedia Britannica, Carlos D. Morrison defines code-switching as the “process of shifting from one linguistic code (a language or dialect) to another, depending on the social ...