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Isn't this what in linguistics people call 'code-switching'? It's a contextual and cultural thing. Just like when people go into formal settings like an interv
by pizzetta 10y ago
Isn't this what in linguistics people call 'code-switching'? It's a contextual and cultural thing. Just like when people go into formal settings like an interview for a white collar job, they tone down the swearing --but ight turn it up once they meet with colleagues at a bar.
- talloaktrees 10y agono. code switching is mixing multiple languages, often in a single sentence.
- pizzetta 10y agoThat's one definition, but it has expanded into "Both in popular usage and in sociolinguistic study, the name code-switching is sometimes used to refer to switching among dialects, styles or registers" according to(1) (1)http://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2013/04/08/176064688/how-code-switching-explains-the-world http://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2013/04/08/176064688/...