Essays on Code-switching

I have chosen to analyze my reflective piece, “Diary of an Insecure Girl” in terms of the attitudes to language and communicative behaviors which are found therein. Attitudes to Language refer to the manner in which people use and view the varieties of English spoken in the Caribbean. A consideration adopted in looking at attitudes…

Bilingual or multilingual is a person who can speak two or more two languages with equal or less equal proficiency. A society is called bilingual or multilingual if the people there speak more than one language. Bilingualism and multilingualism are referred to the same thing mostly. Bilingualism may mean that the users of language are…

The Webster’s New Collegiate Dictionary (1980) defines culture as “the incorporated pattern of human behavior that includes thought, speech, action, and artifacts and depends on man’s competence for learning and transmitting knowledge to succeeding generations” and “the customary beliefs, social forms, and material behavior of a racial, religious, or social group.” These definitions point to…

1. Introduction The phenomenon of bilingualism is still an often-discussed subject in linguistics. Though there are already many research in this field since some decades, yet it offers scope for further interesting investigation. Is there a need to be bilingual and if so, why? How does someone use the capacity of two or more languages…