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Code-switching/mixing

Code-switching/mixing

Code-switching/mixing

31.1 Terminological and Other Preliminaries

Whereas humans have doubtlessly been switching codes for as long as there have been bilinguals, the phenomenon of code-switching has only received attention in linguistics, from the mid-1950s onwards — Alvarez Cáccamo (1998) traces the first mention of the term back to Vogt (1954) — and ...

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