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Code-switching in Bangladesh

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 March 2003

Rahela Banu  and
Roland Sussex
Rahela Banu
Affiliation:
University of Alicante, Spain
Roland Sussex
Affiliation:
University of Alicante, Spain
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Extract

A survey of hybridization in proper names and commercial signs. CODE-SWITCHING is commonly seen as more typical of the spoken language. But there are some areas of language use, including business names (e.g. restaurants), where foreign proper names, common nouns and sometimes whole phrases are imported into the written language too. These constitute a more stable variety of code-switching than the spontaneous and more unpredictable code-switching in the spoken language.

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Original Articles
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English Today , Volume 17 , Issue 2 , April 2001 , pp. 51 - 61
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© 2001 Cambridge University Press

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