Linguistic and Extralinguistic Factors of Code-Switching as a Process of Contacting Languages

Abstract

The article is devoted to the consideration of linguistic and extralinguistic issues for the implementation of code-switching Kazakh bilinguals in the structure of speech communication. Special attention is paid to the question of the reasons for code-switching in the process of conversation. The relevance of the study is due to the increased interest in the socio-psychological factors of code-switching in the context of speech-generation models. The results of the data obtained by conducting a partially-structured narrative interview allowing assemble a corpus of metatext discourses, are presented. Statistical calculation, contextual analysis and cognitive modeling techniques as well as a part of the materials of the field sociolinguistic research – transcripts of audio recordings of natural dialogues of bilingual Kazakhs in conjunction with the data of the included observation were used. Keywords—sociolinguistics, code-switching, contact linguistics, bilingualism, borrowing