Code Switching

Code Switching describes the process in which a communicatively competent multilingual speaker alternates or switches usually between two .............during the same conversation.

• languages

• language varieties

• code

• Any of the previous options

Someone considers..... when they switch code

• participants

• solidarity

• Status

• None of the options

A change in a particular factor, e.g. location (physical setting), participants or topic can bring about a change in code. This is called ........ code-switching.

• setting

• time

• situational

People may switch within a speech event to discuss a particular topic.

• True

• False

When someone code-switching for rhetorical reasons, drawing on the associations of the two codes, he/she indicates

• Metaphorical switching

• Lexical borrowing

• Affective switching

People switch to another language to express a concept or describe an object for which there is no obvious word available in the language they are using.

This situation is called...

• Metaphorical switching

• Lexical borrowing

• Affective switching

Engari [SO] now we turn to more important matters. (Switch between Maori and English). The kind of switching shown in the example is called...

• Effective switching

• Sentence switching

• Tag switching

• none of the options

The speaker switches between two codes within sentences is called

• Intra-sentential Code Switching

• Inter-sentential Code Switching

• Tag switching

The speaker switches between two codes at sentence boundaries is called

• Intra-sentential Code Switching

• Inter-sentential Code Switching

• Tag Switching

In Matrix Language Frame (MLF), the dominant language is called the

• Matrix language

• Embedded Language

• Any of the previous options