Code-switching is a practice that people from marginalized groups engage in to assimilate to another culture. Learn what it is and why it happens.

Examples of code-switching under pressure include "cover [ing] up traditional tattoos — like Inuit kakiniit or Maori ta moko — to fit in with others," letting people use a nickname instead of ...

Disadvantages to code-switching This pressure to switch how you speak and behave to fit in comes at a cost. Due to the historic class background of RP, the pressure to code-switch is ...

Call for Articles for our Special Issue on Code-switching as a Narrative tool Forum for Modern Language Studies A growing interest in code-switching – defined as “the alternative use by bilinguals of ...

Letters: Should Code-Switching Be Taught in Schools? Readers respond to a profile of one professor’s quest to change the way we teach young speakers of African-American English.

“So that is code switching,” they told me. In code switching, languages — and the abstraction that languages carry — can be objectified into autonomous, structured, and self-contained ...

A letter from the editor explains The Cost of Code Switching, PS Juntos's package for Latine Heritage Month on Latines doing away with code-switching.

In linguistics, code switching refers to people altering their “code” in certain contexts, depending on who they are speaking to. In this sense, a code typically refers to a different language. Much ...

If so, you may already be experienced in code-switching. In linguistics, code switching refers to people altering their “code” in certain contexts, depending on who they are speaking to.

In this article, the bilingual speech of members of Spanish, Portuguese, and Algerian communities in France is examined. After having conducted a systematic inventory of all the instances of ...