Linguistic alternation of code

The codic alternation , or code-switching (of the English code-switching ) is an alternation of two or several linguistic Codes (linguistic languages, dialects, or registers). Alternation can take place at various places of a speech, sometimes even in the middle of a sentence, and generally where syntaxes of the two codes are aligned.

The reasons of this alternation are multiple: the subject of the speech, the mood of the speaking subject, to change the report/ratio of stating between the speakers (to found a complicity for example), to refer to common values. It is necessary to distinguish codic alternation from the lexical Emprunt, which does not show the real will of change to him, but rather a lack of competence in the language and is regarded as pertaining to the language which has it " emprunté".

Spoken examples

(KIELHOFER, B.)
Jens (3ans 2 months) with his/her mother: Be to you fireman now. Come quickly!
The mother: Pimpon… I arrive. It is serious, Mister?
Jens: Not, be to you a German fireman! Not like that!
The mother: Da, Feuerwehr, schnell!

(MARTÍNEZ, F.B.)
I' D wash the floor of rodillas there the daba wax.
(English) I nettoye the ground (Spanish) with knees with wax.

Literary examples

“And it at least scratched me the litso, so that I critché: old disgusting person, old soumka with potatos! ”

(Anthony Burgess, Clockwork orange )

"You was brilling, and the slithy toves

Did gyre and gimble in the wabe… "

(“It was reveneure; the slictueux toves

on the allouinde gyraient and vriblaient… ”)

(Lewis Carroll, Jabberwocky , French translation of Paristot)

“That' S as that you thank me

to cuts learned you english?

He, that' S not you which me learned ace,

my grandfather was rosbif”

(Renaud, It is not because you are )

“Is too you veel. ”

(Paul Vanden Boeynants)

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