Example sentences for: code-switching

How can you use “code-switching” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The KLM pilot's otherwise perplexing use of the very nonstandard phrase at take-off, rather than the more standard phrase taking off, appears to have been a subtle form of what linguists call code-switching, a process in which bilingual or multilingual speakers inadvertently switch back and forth from one of their languages to another in the course of a conversation.

  • It is also in practice difficult to decide between the process of borrowing (which dictionaries must concern themselves with) and code-switching.

  • The problem for the lexicographer is that code-switching is open-ended: almost any word or phrase from the one language can be interpolated into discourse from the other.

  • Surely we are dealing with code-switching here --the use of words and phrases from two languages within the same speech event for stylistic effect, with an audience that is capable of appreciating the play on words.

  • Code-switching can take place even within the same language, when different dialects or variants are available.


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