terminology question

[Dennis R. Preston]

Jesse,

Must "code-switching" be deliberate? When my Wisconsin wife listens
to me as we drive South, she says I get hillbillier and hillbiller,
but I do this un(in?)deliberately.

I don't think this is a common requirement for code-switching. The
major distinction in the literature has been between 'situational'
versus 'metaphoric.'

dInIs



>On Mon, Nov 01, 2004 at 08:12:31PM -0600, Steve Hollis wrote:
>>  Greetings,
>>
>>  I subscribed to this list in hopes of finding out some information.  I
>>  am having a little trouble in some research and I believe it is because
>>  I don't know the correct terminology.
>>
>>  I am looking for the correct vocabulary to describe people changing
>>  dialects due to changing social groups.  For example, when I go to visit
>>  my parents in rural Alabama, my accent deepens and I speak with a more
>>  rural dialect.  Is a dialect shift what I am looking for?
>
>If you're doing this deliberately, based on circumstances, the
>usual term would be "code-switching".
>
>Jesse Sheidlower


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