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Codeswitching Week 5 What is Codeswitching? When a single speaker uses different varieties at different times. Patterns of bilingual language use: Use of a single code within particular domains Both codes used simultaneously in a single domain Single code speakers are rare to find [exclude children’s use and the interlanguage of learners acquiring a second language] What is interesting is the factors that govern the choice of a particular code on a particular occasion. Why do people choose to use one code rather than another? And why do they occasionally prefer to use a code formed from two other codes by switching back and forth between the two and even mixing them? Types of Codeswitching Alternation between utterances A: Hello, may I speak with Mr Wong, please. B: [3;] A: Qing wen, wang xian sheng zai jia ma? (May I ask, is Mr Wang in?) B: [Q;] dui bu qi. Ta gang chu qü. (Sorry, he has just gone out.) A: Ta ji dian hui lai? (What time will be be back?) B: So sorry, I don’t know. A: OK, thank you, I will call back. Bye. Types of Codeswitching Alternation between utterances People here get divorce too easily. Like exchanging faulty goods. In China it’s not the same. Jia gou sui gou, jia ji sui ji. (If you have married a dog, you follow a dog; if you have married a chicken, you follow a chicken.) Types of Codeswitching Intra-sentential and intra-clausal mixtures of language: Speakers may switch codes within a single sentence. French Je suis une Canadienne-fran?aise I guess. (I’m a French Canadian I guess) Heller 1990 Chinese His grandfather who say he want to come ?h b? lái. (part don’t come) (His grandfather who said he wanted to come, did not come.) Tan 1988 Types of Codeswitching Spanish no v