code-switching

Noun CEFR C2

Definitions

The phenomenon or practice of alternating between two or more languages or language varieties.

Equivalents

Españolalternancia de código conmutación lingüística transmudación lingüísticatransmudamiento lingüístico trastrocamiento lingüístico

Françaisalternance codique alternance de code code-switching

DeutschCode-Switching Kode-Umschaltung KodewechselSprachwechsel

10 more languages

العربيةتَنَاوَب لُغَوِيّ

Suomikoodinvaihto

Gaeilgecódmhalartú

Bahasa Indonesiaalih kode

日本語コードスイッチング

한국어부호전환 코드 스위칭

Portuguêsalternância de código

Русскийпереключе́ние ко́дов смеше́ние ко́дов

Kiswahilikuchanganya msimbo

Українськаперемикання кодів

Examples

“As with many bilingual families, it was normal to observe ⟳ frequent code-switching at our dinner table.”

“Within the English language, a good example of code-switching in daily life is weaving back and forth between African American Vernacular English and General American English.”

“In addition, our combined syntax-function approach ⟳ sheds new light ⟳ on a syntactic analysis of code-switching.”

CEFR level

C2

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See also

codeathon codeball codebase codeblock Codebook Codebooks

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