Linguistic- Code Switching

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This video gives the breakdown of code-switching in America. It talks about all the different types of English that exist in US. It also addresses why and individual partitakes in this linguistic practice; a word translation doesn't come to mind so they revert to the word in another language, or they are purposely excluding others from understanding. Code Switching if referred to different terms depending on the language mixture; Spanglish, Chinglish, etc.

Posted by Meaghan Kuhlmann on February 21, 2016

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Code-switching;
Merger;
Race,Ethnicity;
Communities of Practice;
Multilingualism

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