Code-switching is a practice that people from marginalized groups engage in to assimilate to another culture. Learn what it is and why it happens.

This paper examines syntactic aspects of this code-switching mode of communication. It shows that this process does not proceed randomly but is, rather, governed by principles dependent on switch ...

Examples of code-switching under pressure include "cover [ing] up traditional tattoos — like Inuit kakiniit or Maori ta moko — to fit in with others," letting people use a nickname instead of ...

In this article, the bilingual speech of members of Spanish, Portuguese, and Algerian communities in France is examined. After having conducted a systematic inventory of all the instances of ...

Examples of code-switching under pressure include "cover [ing] up traditional tattoos — like Inuit kakiniit or Maori ta moko — to fit in with others," letting people use a nickname instead of ...

Letters: Should Code-Switching Be Taught in Schools? Readers respond to a profile of one professor’s quest to change the way we teach young speakers of African-American English.

So code-switching is used for a lot of social purposes. MARTIN: Marc, let me ask you. If you and I were here by ourselves - we're both African-American - would we be talking this way?

Code-switching is a survival technique, a tool to help someone seamlessly blend into different social and professional situations – particularly where you are a minority.

Code-Switching for the Kingdom Hope E. Ferguson, guest writer Sometimes the gospel sounds like, “Nobody can do me like Jesus.” Her.meneutics August 22, 2014 ...