code-switching

• codeswitching, code switching

code-switching (uncountable)

1. (linguistics) 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.

   • 1997, Miwa Nishimura, Japanese/English Code-switching, P. Lang, page 36:

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

   • 2008, Elena Gluth, Code-switching: grammatical, pragmatic and psycholinguistic aspects, Bod Third Party Titles:
   • 2009, Barbara E. Bullock, Almeida Jacqueline Toribio, The Cambridge Handbook of Linguistic Code-switching, Cambridge University Press:

• code-mixing

• code-switch

• accommodation

code-switching

1. present participle and gerund of code-switch

• Chinglish
• Dunglish
• Finglish
• Franglais
• Hinglish
• Japlish, Engrish
• Konglish
• Runglish
• Spanglish
• pidgin