terminology question

[Gordon, Matthew J.]

Code-switching can refer to shifts between 2 or more languages or dialects. Style-shifting would be another alternative for intra-dialect variation.
You might also look at the literature on dialect accomodation, which usually deals with adopting features of a dialect that is not your native one.


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From: American Dialect Society on behalf of Steve Hollis
Sent: Mon 11/1/2004 10:03 PM
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Subject:      Re: terminology question
 
Jesse Sheidlower wrote:

>If you're doing this deliberately, based on circumstances, the
>usual term would be "code-switching".
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>Jesse Sheidlower
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I thought that, andIdid try to do some searching for code-shifting, but
everything I found was switching two different languages didn't seem to
address dialects,  I didn't try code-switching, and I will give that a try.

Thank you.