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code-switching en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. (countable, uncountable) The phenomenon or practice of alternating between two or more languages or language varieties.
    • 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. 1997, Miwa Nishimura, Japanese/English Code-switching, P. Lang, page 36:

Forms

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code-switchings Number=Plur lexicographic
codeswitching alternative lexicographic
code switching alternative lexicographic

Relateds

code-switch · accommodation

Synonyms

code-mixing

Translations (29)

fr alternance de code (phenomenon or practice of alternating between two or more languages) · de Code-Switching (phenomenon or practice of alternating between two or more languages) · ar تَنَاوَب لُغَوِيّ (phenomenon or practice of alternating between two or more languages) · fr alternance codique (phenomenon or practice of alternating between two or more languages) · oc alternància de còdi (phenomenon or practice of alternating between two or more languages) · et koodivahetus (phenomenon or practice of alternating between two or more languages) · ko 코드 스위칭 (phenomenon or practice of alternating between two or more languages) · ca alternança de codi (phenomenon or practice of alternating between two or more languages) · fit kootinvaihto (phenomenon or practice of alternating between two or more languages) · de Sprachwechsel (phenomenon or practice of alternating between two or more languages) · es transmudamiento lingüístico (phenomenon or practice of alternating between two or more languages) · id alih kode (phenomenon or practice of alternating between two or more languages) · es conmutación lingüística (phenomenon or practice of alternating between two or more languages) · es alternancia de código (phenomenon or practice of alternating between two or more languages) · pt alternância de código (phenomenon or practice of alternating between two or more languages) · ru переключе́ние ко́дов (phenomenon or practice of alternating between two or more languages) · ga códmhalartú (phenomenon or practice of alternating between two or more languages) · sw kuchanganya msimbo (phenomenon or practice of alternating between two or more languages) · fi koodinvaihto (phenomenon or practice of alternating between two or more languages) · es trastrocamiento lingüístico (phenomenon or practice of alternating between two or more languages) · de Kodewechsel (phenomenon or practice of alternating between two or more languages) · ja コードスイッチング (phenomenon or practice of alternating between two or more languages) · es transmudación lingüística (phenomenon or practice of alternating between two or more languages) · ru смеше́ние ко́дов (phenomenon or practice of alternating between two or more languages) · uk перемикання кодів (phenomenon or practice of alternating between two or more languages) · cmn 語碼轉換 /语码转换 (phenomenon or practice of alternating between two or more languages) · fa رمزگردانی (phenomenon or practice of alternating between two or more languages) · de Kode-Umschaltung (phenomenon or practice of alternating between two or more languages) · ko 부호전환 (phenomenon or practice of alternating between two or more languages)

code-switching en · VERB

Meanings

  1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present) present participle and gerund of code-switch
    form of code-switch

Forms

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code switching alternative lexicographic
codeswitching alternative lexicographic

Relateds

Dunglish · Chinglish · Franglais · Konglish · Spanglish · pidgin · Engrish · Finglish · Hinglish · Runglish · Taglish · Japlish