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

Are you curious about what it means to code-switch? Let's talk about what it is and how it impacts the well-being of racial and ethnic minorities.

The definition of code-switching has evolved over the years, but initially, it was a term used in linguistics to describe tailoring your language to your present social context.

Code-switching just increases the cognitive and linguistic loads on children who are already behind in reading and language.

Surely, then, if everyone is using our quintessentially Black British sayings, our emotive expressions, and our pop culture references, code-switching is on its way out for Black Brits? Code-switching ...

In this sense, code-switching is where the speaker alternates between two or more languages, language varieties, or informal mixtures of language – all within a single conversation.

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 ...

'Code-switching' was originally coined as a linguistic term for the ways in which bilingual people engage with language. It describes bilingual speakers alternating between literal linguistic ...

What Can We Do About It? In light of our research, we offer the following recommendations for companies and racial-minority professionals about the complexities of code-switching at work.

Code-switching is an age-old practice that is familiar to many Black people—and people of color—in the United States. Though when sociolinguist Einar Haugen coined the term in 1954, it was to describe ...

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