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Code Switching and Code Mixing

Code switching refers to the practice of alternating between languages during conversation, often by bilingual speakers, and can occur at various levels such as phrases or single words. Code mixing, on the other hand, involves the blending of languages within a single utterance, making it difficult to separate their meanings. Factors influencing code mixing include the speaker's social background, education, and language proficiency.

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Code Switching and Code Mixing

Code switching refers to the practice of alternating between languages during conversation, often by bilingual speakers, and can occur at various levels such as phrases or single words. Code mixing, on the other hand, involves the blending of languages within a single utterance, making it difficult to separate their meanings. Factors influencing code mixing include the speaker's social background, education, and language proficiency.

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Code switching and Code mixing

Code Switching, in terms of language, is the use of more than one language, by
a person or more, during their conversations with each other. Code Switching is
done simply because those persons know more than one language and have
more than one language in common. This switch may last for a couple of
sentences, for only a single phrase or may be only for a single word. It
depends on how the persons take it with themselves and the others
(Reyes,2004:92).

(Crystal,1995:34 ) states that code switching happens when a bilingual


speaker shifts between two languages . However , code-switching is code shift
actualized as a process within the individual , the speaker moves from one code
to another and back , more or less rapidly , in course of a single sentence.

According to (Romaine,1992: 67) , Code mixing usually occurs in bilingual or


multilingual community or society and the function (meaning) of the languages
can not be clearly separated. This code mixing is used when the speakers use
both languages together to the extent that they change from one language to the
other in the course of a single utterance .In code mixing the main code or basic
code has its own function and meaning, other codes, however, are only the
pieces, without function and meaning as a code.

If the speaker mixes his or her code or language, then it must be asked the
factors such as: who the speaker is: social background, the level of education,
religion, etc. A speaker who masters many languages will have chance to mix
code more than the other speakers who only master one language. But it does
not mean that the speaker who masters many languages will always mix codes
(Romaine,1992: 50).

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