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A Case Study of Code-switching in a City of East China

Author(s) -

Xiaoping Jie

Publication year - 2017

Publication title -

ethical lingua journal of language teaching and literature

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

eISSN - 2540-9190

pISSN - 2355-3448

DOI - 10.30605/ethicallingua.v4i1.294

Subject(s) - mandarin chinese , variety (cybernetics) , china , conversation , linguistics , code switching , east asia , geography , function (biology) , southern china , code (set theory) , computer science , artificial intelligence , programming language , philosophy , archaeology , set (abstract data type) , evolutionary biology , biology

This study attempts to observe how natives of different age groups in a city of south-east China switch between Putonghua (Mandarin Chinese), the H language variety, and the local dialect, the L variety, the linguistic features of different CS patterns, and the function of the H variety in conversation. Topics of the participants’ conversations ranged from family to friends, neighbourhood, games, movies, computers and business. Data analysis shows that the participants mainly use the local dialect and Putonghua in their daily conversation, while English and other dialects in China like Cantonese and Dongbeihua(Dialect in north-east China) are also used.

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