Instances Of Code-switching Research Articles

Code-Mixing and Code-Switching in the TV Culinary Show MasterChef Indonesia

This study has explored the phenomenon of Indonesian language use in the culinary world within the public television space, with a focus on code-mixing and code-switching. This research contributes to an understanding of how Indonesian language usage is evolving in culinary television programs and examines its potential impacts on the preservation and development of Indonesian as a national language. A problem-solving approach, based on Gumperz's and Poplack's theories of code-mixing and code-switching, was utilized to analyze language use within Indonesian culinary television programs. The data comprised sentences featuring code-mixing and code-switching instances, extracted from culinary television program videos. This study analyzed the forms of code-mixing and code-switching present within Indonesian culinary television and identified factors influencing their usage. Moreover, it assessed how shifts in Indonesian language use through code-mixing and code-switching may impact the preservation and development of Indonesian as a national language in the public television context.

“Me aviento el English y el Spanish”: Spanish-English code-switching in Texas conjunto artist Nick Villarreal

Aims and objectives: This study focuses on Nick Villarreal (1951–2017), a bilingual and bicultural conjunto musician from San Antonio. It ascertains the frequency, formal features, and socio-pragmatic functions of the Spanish/English code-switching found in his songs. Methodology: Quantitative and qualitative approaches are utilized to explore Nick Villarreal’s use of code-switching in song lyrics. Data and analysis: Nick Villarreal’s commercially available discography (178 non-repeated tracks) was classified by matrix language. All instances of code-switching were identified and classified by type, syntactic category, and function. Song themes were inductively analyzed. Findings: Most of Nick Villarreal’s lyrics are in Spanish (73%), while 22% contain code-switching. Lexical insertions are the most common type of switches (65%). Villarreal also employs other contact phenomena, such as fully nativized borrowings, and syntactic and semantic calques. His virtuosity is apparent in his humorous bilingualism, especially in the creative nominalizations of English clauses as nicknames (e.g., la I-didn’t-do-it). The main function performed by switches is poetic—that is, stylistic uses of language, such as rhyming, joking, and puns. He conveys authenticity through code-switching and other enregistered linguistic sources such as border slang, or caló, and working-class/rural Mexican Spanish. He shows loyalty toward a working-class rural Spanish-speaking audience of conjunto that shares his background, while simultaneously appealing to second-generation Mexican Americans through his use of English and references to Anglo culture. Originality: Only recently have scholars begun to describe the linguistic features of borderland styles. This study focuses on an artist who has never received scholarly attention before but who turned his music into a meaningful vehicle for linguistic and cultural anti-assimilatory subversion. Implications: Villarreal employs strategies common to other borderlands bilingual musicians while innovating creatively. He actively stylizes the local to evoke a sense of authenticity and is thus a meaningful example of the intersection between language representation, class allegiance, linguistic attitudes, and cultural stance.

Code-Switching in “Kongsi Raya”: Unveiling Communication Patterns in Cinema

Code-switching, a prevalent phenomenon in societies, especially among multilingual individuals, involves effortlessly transitioning between languages. Some scholars argue that code-switching signals a lack of language proficiency, while others believe it is an additional tool for achieving specific interactive goals when conversing with others. This behavior is not limited to real-life interactions but also appears in various creative mediums such as talk shows, music, films, and other artistic expressions. The primary objective of this research was to identify and analyze instances of code-switching in the film "Kongsi Raya." Using a qualitative descriptive methodology, the study collected and thoroughly examined selected scenes and dialogues from the movie, applying Malik's (1994) code-switching functions framework. The findings showed that code-switching was used either unconsciously or deliberately as an essential communication strategy to effectively convey the speakers' intended meaning, including emotions or simply providing information. This behavior reflects real-life communication scenarios in a culturally diverse country like Malaysia.

Theorizing checkpoints of desire: multilingualism, sexuality and (in)securitization in Israel/Palestine

ABSTRACT In this article, we explore how people in conflict-affected societies use language to navigate the affective constraints that political conflicts impose. Specifically, we consider the role of multilingualism in enabling sexual and romantic intimacy between Jewish and Palestinian Israelis in Israel/Palestine. Our data are drawn from a close examination of the speech of Fadi Daeem, one of the protagonists in the 2015 documentary Oriented. Building on studies of (in)securitization and everyday bordering, we show how the ongoing armed conflict between Israel and Palestine serves to instantiate a regime of affective checkpoints, a space in which sexual and romantic relations between Jewish Israelis and Palestinians are discursively blocked. We describe how Fadi and his friends use strategic instances of code-switching between Arabic, Hebrew, and English to navigate this ideologically fraught terrain. Our primary goal is to demonstrate how multilingualism can be employed as a resource for managing affect and desire in a conflict-ridden context like Israel/Palestine. In doing so, we further highlight how the intimate domain of romantic desire is inevitably situated within a broader matrix of power and constraint.

Analysis of Code Switching on Cinta Laura Kiehl in Iwil Network Youtube Channel Video

The study, "An Analysis of Code Switching on Cinta Laura Kiehl in Iwil Network YouTube Channel Video," focused on two main issues: types and reasons for code switching. Utilizing Poplack's (1980) and Grosjean's (1981) theories, it employed a qualitative approach. Data collection involved downloading the video, watching the podcast, reading the script, and identifying instances of code switching. A total of 144 instances were found, categorized into 21 Tag Switching, 91 Inter-Sentential, and 32 Intra-Sentential occurrences. Reasons for code switching included Fill a Linguistics Need for Lexical Item, Set Phrase, Discourse Maker, or Sentence Filler (72 instances), Continued The Last Language Used (52 instances), and others such as Quoting Someone (1 instance), Specify Address (3 instances), and Conveying Confidentiality, Anger, and Annoyance (4 instances). These findings contribute to understanding the intricacies of code switching in the context of Cinta Laura Kiehl's videos on the Iwil Network YouTube channel.

MECOS: A bilingual Manipuri–English spontaneous code-switching speech corpus for automatic speech recognition

In this study, we introduce a new code-switched speech database with 57h of Manipuri–English annotated spontaneous speech. Manipuri is an official language of India and is primarily spoken in the north–eastern Indian state of Manipur. Most Manipur native speakers today are bilingual and frequently use code switching in everyday discussions. By carefully assessing the amount of code-switched speech in each video, recordings from YouTube are gathered. 21,339 utterances and 291,731 instances of code switching are present in the database. Given the code-switching nature of the data, a proper annotation procedure is used, and the data are manually annotated using the Meitei Mayek unicode font and the roman alphabets for Manipuri and English, respectively. The transcription includes the information of the speakers, non-speech information, and the corresponding annotation. The aim of this research is to construct an automatic speech recognition (ASR) system as well as offer a thorough analysis and details of the speech corpus. We believe that our research is the first to use an ASR system for Manipuri–English code-switched speech. To evaluate the performance, ASR systems based on hybrid deep neural network and hidden Markov model (DNN–HMM), time delay neural network (TDNN), hybrid time delay neural network and long short-term memory (TDNN–LSTM) and three end-to-end (E2E) models i.e. hybrid connectionist temporal classification and attention model (CTC-Attention), Conformer, wav2vec XLSR are developed for Manipuri–English language. In comparison to other models, pure TDNN produces outcomes that are clearly superior.

Impact of gender on frequency of code-switching in Snapchat advertisements

Abstract Although the phenomenon of code-switching has been a subject of interest to sociolinguists since the 1970s, to date, little research has been conducted on the impact of gender on the frequency of code-switching, especially in oral communication. The current study is an attempt to bridge this gap by comparing code-switching instances in Snapchat advertisements made by 40 Saudi influencers (20 males and 20 females) who roughly belong to the same age group. The first 100 words made by each advertiser were included in the 4,000-word corpus. Although the female sample produced more instances of code-switching (n = 60) than males (n = 42), the hypothesis that there is a significant difference between males and females in the frequency of code-switching was rejected because the difference was not statistically significant either in the number of instances (p value = 0.116) or in the number of English words (p value = 0.149).

Functions of Code-switching in the Egyptian EFL Settings

The main objective of this paper is to explore the alternation between languages, or what is recognized as the code-switching (CS) phenomenon among English language instructors in Egyptian universities. This is conducted by investigating the various purposes that might urge university instructors to code-switch between English and Arabic in their class interactions. This study, therefore, probes the extent to which code-switching is dexterously used in classroom discourse to communicate particular conversational and educational purposes pertinent to the teaching and learning process. Data are taken from 10 classes taught by five university teachers (two classes each) at the English Department, Cairo University. Data are collected through audio recordings of teachers' interactions in the class, and extracts from the participants' speeches are transliterated and analyzed. There are two overarching research questions in this study: first, do Egyptian university teachers of English code-switch? Second, what are the functions of teachers’ code-switching in classroom interaction? Findings indicate that there are instances of code-switching in the discourse of all five participants at varying levels. Findings also reveal a variety of conversational and educational purposes triggering code-switching by the participants. Despite the fact that the findings revealed in this paper are solely thought to be relevant to CS among English language instructors in Egyptian universities, they can be further applied to other classroom discourses and in other EFL settings.

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This article discusses the use of code switching for bilingual children. The aim of the study was to assess which types and functions of code switching dominate in children’s narratives collected according to the MAIN methodology. Samples of children from different language groups (LT-EN and RU-LT) were chosen as they were expected to reveal different patterns of code-switching. The study revealed that code-switching was more frequent in the RU-LT sample, whose children lived in Lithuania but grew up in Russian-speaking families and attended educational institutions for national minorities. The children lacked basic Lithuanian language skills and were more likely to use words or phrases from their mother tongue to express their thoughts. Contrary to what is reported in international studies on children’s language development, in the case of Lithuania it is evident that even in third-generation Russian-speaking families Lithuanian is rarely used. Lithuanian children living in an English-speaking country (LT-EN) had fewer difficulties in speaking Lithuanian: fewer instances of code-switching in their narratives were observed and usually they were related to narrative coherence.In the RU-LT group, there was a very clear motivation for the use of code-switching – the code-switching recorded in the narratives was related to filling lexical gaps. A completely different trend emerged in the LT-EN sample, where English words or phrases helped the children to connect the narratives and to link the structural components of the story. In summary, code-switching is used as a helping strategy for the success of the task by helping the child to tell a story in a language that is inherited by some and a second language by others. Thus, even if the child inserts words in Russian or English, he/she successfully completes the task and tells the story according to the pictures that were presented to the children.

Spanish loan verbs in Paraguayan Guaraní: coexistence, replacement, or both?

Abstract Contact linguists have proposed that core borrowing can indicate language attrition – as the loan replaces its native-origin counterpart – while cultural borrowing expands the lexicon (Campbell, Lyle. 2013. Historical linguistics: An introduction, 3rd edn. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press; Muysken, Pieter. 2000. Bilingual speech: A typology of code-mixing. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press). However, Tadmor and Haspelmath (Tadmor, Uri & Martin Haspelmath. 2009. Loanwords in the world’s languages: A comparative handbook. Berlin: De Gruyter) found that in core borrowing cases, coexistence of the foreign and the native forms is more common than replacement. In this paper, I explore coexistence and replacement scenarios of Spanish-origin core loan verbs and their native-origin counterparts in Paraguayan Guaraní. These loans have been previously described as instances of code-switching (Estigarribia, Bruno. 2017. Insertion and backflagging as mixing strategies underlying Guaraní-Spanish mixed words. In Bruno Estigarribia & Justin Pinta (eds.), Guaraní linguistics in the 21st century, 315–347. Leiden: Brill; Kallfell, Guido. 2016. ¿Cómo hablan los paraguayos con dos lenguas?: gramática del jopara. Asunción: CEADUC). Tokens of highly frequent native-origin verbs along with their broadly equivalent Spanish-origin loans were extracted from 40 interviews and were correlated with the senses of each verb. Results show that some Spanish verb loans replace its native-origin counterpart to convey only one of its senses, while the native-origin form remains the preferred form to convey the other senses. This specialized use also suggests that these semantically specialized Spanish verb loans are not code-switches but rather integrated lexical items in Guaraní.

Advertising Media, an analysis of Code in Compilation of Food and Beverage Ads on YouTube

The utilization of coding within advertising discourse is an imperative means of communication, effectively demonstrating the wide array of linguistic frameworks employed in promotional campaigns. The deliberate inclusion of diverse languages in advertisements serves the dual purpose of capturing attention and safeguarding regional languages by utilizing advertising platforms to uphold and enhance their significance. The objective of this study is to analyse instances of code switching and code mixing in compilation videos of food and beverage advertisements uploaded by Rofif Satria on the YouTube Satria Channel account. The utilization of a qualitative methodology employing descriptive techniques in data collection entails the process of observation and subsequent documentation through note-taking. The researcher carefully examines each advertising video, meticulously documenting both the spoken and written narratives conveyed within them. The instances of code-switching and code-mixing in the compilation videos are subsequently identified, annotated, and documented. The data that has been gathered is organized and classified according to its type, as well as the specific forms of code-switching and code-mixing that are present. The research findings indicate instances of code-switching and code-mixing, which encompass both internal and external forms. These include the insertion of words, phrases, clauses, and basters. The contextualization of data, including words, phrases, and clauses, is integral to the interpretation within the discourse of advertising.

Code-Switching in the EFL Classroom: Yeah or Nay?

Code-switching between bilingual and multilingual teachers and students at St. Nicholas School (SNS) is a natural and inescapable language phenomenon. This motivated the researcher to study whether code-switching affected teachers and students negatively or favorably, particularly in terms of their academic activity. The researcher specifically delved into how English teachers and students in EFL classes at SNS saw code-switching and perceive the methods, purposes, and issues that came with it. To find out how respondents feel about code-switching, this study employed a mixed-methods research methodology and an adapted questionnaire to collect data. According to the study, code-switching has a ton of advantages for students and teachers, making teaching and learning rich, fruitful, and engaging. Also, it aided in the accomplishment of educational objectives, made it easier to understand complex ideas, and sped up the process of acquiring language abilities. Despite the positive outcome, some drawbacks impair teachers’ and students’ ability to communicate, particularly when dealing with English-only speakers when they are immersed in the outside world. Also, when utilized improperly, it might have compromised the teaching-learning process. Code-switching in the classroom is therefore both a yeah and a nay! To optimize the benefits of code-switching, the study suggested finding a balance. The long-term harmful effects of learning a language can be avoided in large part by teachers. The usage of the target language should be required in classroom settings where formal education takes place. Code-switching can only be used to bridge the gap between the text and the pupils’ comprehension if there is a communication breakdown. Only in such circumstances are code-switching instances tolerable, if not acceptable. When two languages are sufficiently developed, code-switching will finally produce more intellectual advantages than disadvantages. Keywords: English language; code-switching; EFL classroom, EFL teachers; Thai English Language Classrooms

Linguistic Interface: Nature of Hausa-English Code-Switching in Hausa Islamic Preaching

This paper investigates the use of Hausa-English Code-switching in Hausa Islamic preachings in Northern Nigeria. The objectives of this research are to identify instances of code-switching in Hausa Islamic preachings and to analyze its type. The study employs functionalist view of Discourse analysis as the theoretical frame work in the analysis of data and ethnography of communication method for the data collection. The findings of the research show that, code-switching in Islamic preaching is a conscious and unconscious behavior and intra-sentential switching is more commonly used than any other type of switching. It also reveals that the preachers switch to the two codes for different functions such as: clarification, situational, attraction of attention and addressing audience, similarly the research showed the existence of inter-sentential, intra-sentential and tag-(types of code-switching) in the Islamic preachings.

Patterns of Code-switching in the Amharic Media

This study examines patterns of Amharic-English code-switching in the Amharic media language use. It employed a qualitative descriptive approach, which helped break down the recordings and transcripts into intelligible units that helped explain the various language use forms created by code-switching in the Amharic media. Thus, five Amharic media outlets focusing on sport, medical science, and science and technology were purposively selected to study language use in the Amharic media. Hence, 1090 examples which have both Amharic and English elements were selected. A generic step of data analysis was made so as to classify the different types and patterns of code-switching instances. The findings indicated that the three different types of code-switching, namely tag switching, inter-sentential code-switching, and intra-sentential code-switching, are found in the Amharic media language use. Moreover, it was found that there are different patterns of code-switching from English to Amharic. Thus, it is shown that Amharic is the matrix language and is quite resistant against any change of its basic word order. It can also be seen that the mixed constituents found in the Amharic media confirm that the matrix language frame (MLF) model can satisfactorily explain the patterns of Amharic-English code-switching.

Language, Music, Self-Representation and Claiming the Space: Artists from Limpopo Province in South Africa

It is widely accepted that popular culture is a product of the masses, for the masses. But even then, popular culture is embedded with ideologies of control, manipulation, power dynamics, exclusion and inclusion, empowerment, and disempowerment. For a long time, the South African mainstream music industry has been dominated by artists and groups from Gauteng and KwaZulu-Natal provinces. These two provinces have produced many musical artists, film productions, television shows and many other artistic personnel. Language has always been a key factor in the South African mainstream music industry. IsiZulu, isiXhosa and instances of codeswitching have dominated the songs in the country. This has left other social groups and their languages outside mainstream music. However, what happens when a culture of self-representation emerges among a social group? What happens when a social group mobilises itself and claims the space? What about the power of languages in achieving self-representation? This study is influenced by these research questions to do qualitative, textual research on how a selected group of musical artists from Limpopo, South Africa is using music to achieve self-representation.

The Impact of a Monolingual on Spanish Language Code-Switching

Objective: To determine whether Spanish code-switching occurs under laboratory-induced conditions among fluent bilinguals at higher levels compared to a nonintervention control condition.
 Design and Methodology: Fifty-two Spanish bilinguals were randomly assigned to a control or experimental group and participated in a half-hour long face-to-face structured interview in Spanish. Half of the participant population was randomly assigned to the control group and the rest was assigned to the experimental group. The participants in the control group went through the interview without interruption and the number and timing of English code-switching instances were recorded during the interview. During the Spanish interview for the individuals in the experimental group, there was an interruption by a monolingual English experimenter halfway through the session. All instances of code-switching pre- and postinterruption were recorded and compared to the control group. At the conclusion of the Spanish interview, all participants completed an online 87-item questionnaire in English about their linguistic heritage and background.
 Place and Duration of Study: Department of Psychology, Queens University of Charlotte, January 2019 to February 2020.
 Results: The bilinguals in the experimental group, postinterruption, code-switched significantly more than those in the control group. No significant differences in linguistic background or history were found between code-switchers and those who did not code-switch.
 Conclusion: The experimentally designed social interruption during the Spanish interview in the experimental group increased the rate of code-switching among the participants while no such effect was found in the control group. This suggests that the observed code-switching was primarily due to the social interruption rather than any aspect of the interview session setup itself.

Two sepedi-english code-switched speech corpora

We report on the development of two reference corpora for the analysis of Sepedi-English code-switched speech in the context of automatic speech recognition. For the first corpus, possible English events were obtained from an existing corpus of transcribed Sepedi-English speech. The second corpus is based on the analysis of radio broadcasts: actual instances of code switching were transcribed and reproduced by a number of native Sepedi speakers. We describe the process to develop and verify both corpora and perform an initial analysis of the newly produced data sets. We find that, in naturally occurring speech, the frequency of code switching is unexpectedly high for this language pair, and that the continuum of code switching (from unmodified embedded words to loanwords absorbed into the matrix language) makes this a particularly challenging task for speech recognition systems.

Code-Switching in Londokampung Youtube Videos

This research examines code-switching by a multilingual Australian YouTuber, Dave Jephcott, on his Londokampung Youtube channel. The data were obtained from five videos uploaded in July-August 2019 on this YouTube channel. The theory proposed by Blom & Gumperz (1972) was adopted for classifying code-switching and that by Malik (1994) for analyzing the reasons for code-switching. The results show that out of 35 utterances containing code-switching, 20 (57.14%) utterances belong to metaphorical code-switching and 15 (42.86%) utterances to situational code-switching. As for the reasons, 25.7% of code-switching instances serve to emphasize a point, 17.1% to show a lack of register, and another 17.1% to address a different audience. The other reasons include habitual expression (11.4%), the mood of the speaker (8.6%), semantic significance (5.7%), to show identification with a group (5.7%), lack of facility (2.9%), pragmatic reasons (2.9%), and to attract attention (2.9%).

La Traduction et l’alternance de code linguistique dans la musique de Yemi Alade

This article focuses on the links between translation and code-switching in selected songs by Yemi Alade. The songs under study were originally composed and interpreted in English before being translated into French. The original lyrics do not translate the instances where Yoruba and Igbo code-switching occurs, whereas the French versions frequently translate such instances. The article argues that these translations of code-switching serve to re-examine preconceived notions about a song and its translation. The argument demonstrates that it is possible for a song to ‘gain’ in translation, and this is illustrated by Alade’s translated songs. The article also focuses on the extent to which the Derridean perspective of the supplement and that of différance can be applied to music translation. The four songs ‘Johnny’, ‘K-I-S-S-I-N-G’, ‘Africa’ and ‘Ferrari’ have been chosen because they feature instances of code-switching. The article looks at the degree to which one can talk about loss during translation and the supplementary meanings of language in the four songs. finally, it reflects on the implications of linguistic choices for a musician in postcolonial Africa; ordinarily, African writers are the ones who are interrogated regarding language choice, but the question of language is one which confronts every form of art on the continent.

Code-switching in parents’ everyday speech to bilingual infants

Code-switching is a common phenomenon in bilingual communities, but little is known about bilingual parents' code-switching when speaking to their infants. In a pre-registered study, we identified instances of code-switching in day-long at-home audio recordings of 21 French-English bilingual families in Montreal, Canada, who provided recordings when their infant was 10 and 18 months old. Overall, rates of infant-directed code-switching were low, averaging 7 times per hour (6 times per 1,000 words) at 10 months and increasing to 28 times per hour (18 times per 1,000 words) at 18 months. Parents code-switched more between sentences than within a sentence; this pattern was even more pronounced when infants were 18 months than when they were 10 months. The most common apparent reasons for code-switching were to bolster their infant's understanding and to teach vocabulary words. Combined, these results suggest that bilingual parents code-switch in ways that support successful bilingual language acquisition.