During a recent congressional hearing on child welfare, Paris Hilton took a moment to compliment New York Representative Claudia Tenney. “I love your jacket, the sparkles are amazing,” she said, ...

Vice President Kamala Harris ruffled some feathers when she appeared to adopt a different tone or accent with a crowd than she had previously during her recent campaign trip to Detroit to talk about ...

'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 codes in ...

"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 ...

Why so magaling? Let’s go uwi na! Let’s make tusok-tusok the fish balls. Will you divert your attention if you hear these words from friends, or, let’s say, from someone you don’t know? Probably, yes.

Code-switching is not a sign of confusion or language deficiency. Linguists view it as a complex, intelligent response to living in a multilingual environment. While Filipino and English are the ...