Code-switching is the changes that people make to their language, appearance, and behavior as they move back and forth between, for example, white and other cultural environments.

The definition of “code-switch” is to alternate between two or more languages or varieties of language in conversation, but the subtext behind the words can mean so much more. Especiall… ...

Code-switching is not a sign of confusion or language deficiency. Linguists view it as a complex, intelligent response to living in a multilingual environment. While Filipino and English are the ...

In sociology, code switching is when someone alters their speech around different groups of people, according to cultural norms. Learn more.

The definition of code-switching has evolved over the years, but initially, it was a term used in linguistics to describe tailoring your language to your present social context.

Code switching prevents people from feeling like they can be themselves, but culture coding is a heightened form of situational awareness that taps into the multidimensional nature of our true selves.

On this episode of Code Switch, host B.A. Parker talks to Dr. Kendra Calhoun, a linguistic anthropologist and sociocultural linguist at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, and Christian ...

More specifically, it explores the relationship between CS, language emotionality and identity. The Spanish code-switches are analysed in terms of the emotionality degree they elicit and, ...

Many Lakota people agree: It's imperative to revitalize the Lakota language. But how exactly to do that is a matter of broader debate. Should Lakota be codified and standardized to make learning ...

A reflection of societal pressures to code switch, and a celebration of the ability to maintain cultural ties.

NSF awarded a new grant to Prof. Solorio that will support the creation of annotated corpora to study mixed-language sources. This grant is part of a large scale collaborative project with researchers ...

The present study examines the effect of two potential catalysts for interlanguage phonetic interaction, code-switching and language mode, on the production of voice onset time (VOT) to better ...