Codeswitching
CODE-SWITCHING
My task is to write a critical survey of one of the major areas within sociolinguistics. I have chosen to focus on the area of code-switching (CS hereafter) which greatly interests me and is also one of the most researched areas in sociolinguistics. I plan to begin with an introduction to my area including definitions and a brief discussion of the concepts involved. Afterwards, I will be concentrating on the main approaches along with a historical overview of research in the area. Lastly, I will critically evaluate the work done so far and put forward prospects for future study and developments in the area.
Most researches on CS have been done in two separate but related directions, namely Structural and Sociolinguistic. The structural approach to code-switching mainly concentrates on the grammatical features. On the other hand, the main attention in sociolinguistic studies is to observe how social meaning is created in CS and what specific discourse functions......
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