A letter from the editor explains The Cost of Code Switching, PS Juntos's package for Latine Heritage Month on Latines doing away with code-switching.

Examples of code-switching under pressure include "cover [ing] up traditional tattoos — like Inuit kakiniit or Maori ta moko — to fit in with others," letting people use a nickname instead of ...

Examples of code-switching under pressure include "cover [ing] up traditional tattoos — like Inuit kakiniit or Maori ta moko — to fit in with others," letting people use a nickname instead of ...

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 ...

For example, what an unfortunate number of Americans think of as black people slipping into “errors” when they speak is, in the scientific sense, people code-switching between standard and ...

In this article, the bilingual speech of members of Spanish, Portuguese, and Algerian communities in France is examined. After having conducted a systematic inventory of all the instances of ...

Letters: Should Code-Switching Be Taught in Schools? Readers respond to a profile of one professor’s quest to change the way we teach young speakers of African-American English.

So code-switching is used for a lot of social purposes. MARTIN: Marc, let me ask you. If you and I were here by ourselves - we're both African-American - would we be talking this way?