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Codeswitching: Black English and Standard English in the African-American Linguistic Repertoire.
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DeBose, Charles E. – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 1992
Black English (BE) and standard English are treated as two different closely related linguistic systems that coexist in African-American linguistics. Focus is on a middle-class female informant who appears to be a balanced bilingual and who offers counter evidence to the claim that BE is spoken mainly by poor and uneducated persons. (13…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Bilingualism, Black Dialects, Code Switching (Language)
Comparing Codeswitching and Borrowing.
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Myers-Scotton, Carol – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 1992
Examines the extent to which material from a donor language (Embedded Language or EL) appearing in a recipient language (Matrix Language) shows internal differentiation. It is suggested that models of structural aspects of codeswitching must provide a unified account for all EL material in codeswitching utterances. (Author/LB)
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), Contrastive Linguistics, Cultural Pluralism, Language Research