WorksheetsCode Switching
Total questions: 14
Worksheet time: 7mins
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
In Matrix Language Frame (MLF), The
language from which elements are inserted into the ML is called
Matrix Language
Embedded language
Any of the previous options
Matrix Language provides the morphosyntactic frame for ....
Intra-sentential CS
Inter-sentential CS
Any of the previous options
In .....words or phrases from another language are inserted into the first language within one sentence or utterance (Yletyinen 2004: 15)
Intra-sentential CS
Inter-sentential CS
Tag-switching
....... takes place between sentences, the switch occurs at a clause or sentence boundary where its clause or sentence is in different languages (Romaine, 1989:112)
Intra-Sentential CS
Inter-Sentential CS
Tag-Switching
