Abstract
This study investigates language attitudes held by Chinese-English bilinguals toward two types of switching to English in mandarin Chinese discourse, that is, intraclausal and interclausal switchin...
Highlights
As one of the most common outcomes of language contact, code-switching is defined as the alternate use of two or more languages/language varieties in the same conversation, discourse, or even utterance (Gardner-Chloros, 2009)
Intrasentential CS is considered to be a hallmark of bilingual language processing and studies of intrasentential CS can contribute to the understanding of neurocognitive mechanism involved in the language switching process (Van Hell, Fernandez, Kootstra, Litcofsky, & Ting, 2018; Van Hell, Litcofsky, & Ting, 2015)
These two types are found to be typical among Chinese-English bilinguals, especially intraclausal switching, of which the frequency of use was found to have significantly overtaken that of interclausal type in speech (Liu, 2015, 2017)
Summary
As one of the most common outcomes of language contact, code-switching (hereafter CS) is defined as the alternate use of two or more languages/language varieties in the same conversation, discourse, or even utterance (Gardner-Chloros, 2009). The purpose of this study is to show that research on social psychology of CS should differentiate attitudes toward various types of CS. Grammatical and sociolinguistic studies make distinctions between different types of CS, such as between intrasentential and intersentential CS (Poplack, 1980), or between marked and unmarked CS1 (MyersScotton, 1993). These different types of CS are not treated by linguists in terms of their theoretical importance and social significance. Intrasentential CS is considered to be a hallmark of bilingual language processing and studies of intrasentential CS can contribute to the understanding of neurocognitive mechanism involved in the language switching process (Van Hell, Fernandez, Kootstra, Litcofsky, & Ting, 2018; Van Hell, Litcofsky, & Ting, 2015). Marked and unmarked CS can index different sets of rights and obligations perceived by conversation participants (Myers-Scotton, 1993)
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