Meaning of code-switching | Babel Free
Definitions
The phenomenon or practice of alternating between two or more languages or language varieties.
Equivalents
العربية
تَنَاوَب لُغَوِيّ
Español
alternancia de código
conmutación lingüística
transmudación lingüística
transmudamiento lingüístico
trastrocamiento lingüístico
Suomi
koodinvaihto
Gaeilge
códmhalartú
Bahasa Indonesia
alih kode
日本語
コードスイッチング
Português
alternância de código
Kiswahili
kuchanganya msimbo
Українська
перемикання 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
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
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