Code-switching in online academic discourse

IF 0.8 4区文学 0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS

English World-Wide Pub Date : 2020-06-09 DOI:10.1075/eww.00044.lis

Loy Lising, Pam Peters, Adam Smith

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Abstract

Abstract World Englishes are the product of contact between English and other languages in multilingual habitats through the nativization phase. Yet the actual contexts of code-switching that contribute to the emerging regional variety have scarcely been described. This research focuses on code-switching among bilingual Filipino students, to illuminate this dynamic phase in varietal evolution. Using data from an online academic forum, it analyses the code-switching patterns within and between turns in the discussion, to see how they facilitate or inhibit the mobilization of Tagalog elements into code-mixed English. The data show intense levels of code-switching especially within individual turns. At the change of turns, the sequentiality principle is often set aside, and code-switching often involves Tagalog discourse markers and other function words. These include some elements noted two decades earlier (Bautista 1998) as potential features of evolving Philippine English, which have never been codified. The new data provide empirical evidence of how non-English elements are progressively taken up into World Englishes, in interactive use of English among bi-/multilingual speakers.

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网络学术话语中的语码转换

摘要世界英语是英语在多语环境中经过本土化阶段与其他语言接触的产物。然而，导致出现地区差异的语码转换的实际背景几乎没有被描述过。本研究的重点是双语菲律宾学生的语码转换，以阐明品种进化的这一动态阶段。利用一个在线学术论坛的数据，它分析了讨论中回合内和回合之间的语码转换模式，看看它们是如何促进或抑制他加禄语元素在语码混合英语中的调动的。数据显示出强烈的代码转换水平，特别是在单个转弯中。在转换时，顺序原则往往被搁置，语码转换往往涉及他加禄语话语标记和其他虚词。其中包括20年前(Bautista 1998)指出的一些元素，这些元素是菲律宾英语演变的潜在特征，但从未被编纂。新的数据提供了经验证据，证明在双语/多语使用者之间的英语互动使用中，非英语元素是如何逐渐被纳入世界英语的。

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