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Direct linkBautista, Maria Lourdes S. – Asia Pacific Education Review, 2004
The alternation of Tagalog and English in informal discourse is a feature of the linguistic repertoire of educated, middle- and upper-class Filipinos. This paper describes the linguistic structure and sociolinguistic functions of Tagalog-English code switching (Taglish) as provided by various researchers through the years. It shows that the…
Descriptors: Sociolinguistics, Discourse Analysis, Sentence Structure, Code Switching (Language)
