Social Motivations for Codeswitching new thinking and esteemed colleagues from the

and esteemed colleagues from the Cleveland Clinic

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Social Motivations for Codeswitching new thinking and esteemed colleagues from theCodeswitching may be broadly defined as the use of two or more linguistic varieties in the same conversation. Using data from multilingual African context, Carol Myers Scotton advances a theoretical argument which aims at a general explanation of the motivations underlying the phenomenon. She treats codeswitching as a type of skilled performance, not as the 'alternative strategy' of a person who cannot carry on a conversation in the language in which