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English in code‐alternations: towards an integrated study of code‐switching
Author(s) -
Ameikoll-Stobbe
Publication year - 1994
Publication title -
world englishes
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.6
H-Index - 49
eISSN - 1467-971X
pISSN - 0883-2919
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-971x.1994.tb00307.x
Subject(s) - code switching , computer science , code (set theory) , perspective (graphical) , focus (optics) , code mixing , language contact , linguistics , phenomenon , exploit , programming language , artificial intelligence , physics , philosophy , computer security , set (abstract data type) , quantum mechanics , optics
This paper presents an interpretative evaluation of current approaches to the systematic study of code‐switching and other related phenomena of language contact such as code‐mixing and borrowing. 1 Code‐switching is regarded as a skilled discourse strategy that bilingual or multilingual speakers can exploit both socially and semantically in bilingual or multilingual settings. The paper introduces a type of conceptual code‐switching that reflects that code‐contact should be studied from a sociolin‐guistic (code‐alternations) and psycholinguistic (code‐alterations) perspective. The focus will be less on a structural description of code‐contact but on the potential of code‐switching as a complex language contact phenomenon with regard to English as a world language.