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I am interested in expanding how and where Situational Code-Switching has been used, adding to the examples, and bringing up it's possible political usage.

Bibliography for the Situational Code-Switching Page:

“Code–Switching.” Arabic Sociolinguistics, by Reem Bassiouney, Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, 2009, pp. 28–87. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/10.3366/j.ctt1r29z0.9. - I like this article a lot because it brings up different examples of code-switching in countries other than the US, primarily the Arab World, and what code-switching means to them. It also discusses theories and ideas behind why individuals of these environments would code-switch

Valentine, Lisa Philips. “Code Switching and Language Leveling: Use of Multiple Codes in a Severn Ojibwe Community.” International Journal of American Linguistics, vol. 60, no. 4, 1994, pp. 315–341. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/1265839. - This article brings up a specific group of people, the Severn Ojibwe Community, and how code-switching has culturally and historically been used among them.

Orzulak, Melinda J. McBee. “Disinviting Deficit Ideologies: Beyond ‘That's Standard," ‘That's Racist," and ‘That's Your Mother Tongue.’” Research in the Teaching of English, vol. 50, no. 2, 2015, pp. 176–198., www.jstor.org/stable/24890032. - In this article, the problems associated with code-switching are discussed, and how it may be/have always been a vessel for racism. It discusses, with examples, how in the United States between African American Liguistics and 'Proper English' switching have been culturally facilitated as a tool for racism.

Ss2776a (talk) 21:17, 12 February 2019 (UTC) ss2776a

Ss2776a/sandbox (section) Notes from "Code Switching" from the book "Arabic Socio-Linguistics"
Author: Reem Bassiouney

- Dr. Bassiouney (Ph.D) "is an Egyptian author and professor of sociolinguistics, currently teaching at The American University in Cairo. She has written several novels and a number of short stories and won the 2009 Sawiris Foundation Literary Prize for Young Writers for her novel Dr. Hanaa". (copied from her wikipedia page)

- Dr. Bassiouney discusses the differences and examples of code-switching and 'diglossia', a form of code-switching where two languages or variations of the same language are used under different conditions within a community, often applied to languages with 'low' and 'high' dialects, such as arabic. (pp 28)

- she examines first the structure and usage of code-switching and diglossia and then applies this to an examination of why these switches happen, what social or political constraints are apparent.

- In the arab world in particular, code-switching between arabic and another language is especially looked down upon in society, a perspective fueled by arab nationalism and the desire to create public adoration for anything and everything arab by way of promoting disdain for anything and everything non-arab. (pp 29)

- She refutes the notion that bilinguals utilize code-switching as a way of 'filling in the gaps' and supplmenting when they do not know how to express their thoughts in the other language, "when they switch consistently, they usually do so for a specific purpose" (pp 29) "if we approach code-switching as a discourse-related phenomenon, then we have to assume it has sociolinguistic motivations" (pp 29)

Some linguists believe that the predominant force behind code switching, other than stylistic choice, is syntactic constraints, i.e., grammatical obstacles that cause individuals capable of code-switching to code-switch.

Peer Review: I think your international focus is very interesting. I always think about code switching in only the english language, so getting an international perspective on it would be very cool. Your sources address a variety of locations, so I think it is well sourced. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Cw6857a (talk • contribs) 18:01, 25 February 2019 (UTC)

proto-type for situational factors that call for code-switching
A notable example of code-switching that has dialect-specific connotations, or in diglossia, occurs in the Arabic language, which embodies multiple variations that are used either predominantly in speaking in personal or informal settings, such as ones home dialect in the Arab League, predominantly in writing or reading strictly formal literature, such as Classical Arabic, and a standardized version of both that can be spoken and written in professional or high educational settings (such as in university), Modern Standard Arabic.

Many countries in the arab league have a long history in the effects of code-switching not only between different forms of arabic, but between arabic and another language as well. For instance, in Egypt, as well as in many other arab countries, proficiency in a language besides Arabic is only achievable through private, formalized education that is often only affordable to the wealthy upper class. Code-switching between their native dialect to English or another foreign language is thus a index of their socioeconomic status and educational background.

Within the history of the arab world, Arab Nationalism has played a large part on the perception of code-switching in certain arabic-speaking communities; switching from a foreign, particularly European, language was historically frowned upon in society, as it was a linguistic symbol of the occupying country's influence over a nation and so, during the wave of arab nationalism, there was a social preference to only speak arabic and promote 'arab ideals'.

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