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English-Swahili Code Switching: An Intersection Between Stance And Identity, Gorrety Nafula Wawire
English-Swahili Code Switching: An Intersection Between Stance And Identity, Gorrety Nafula Wawire
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The current study seeks to answer the questions of how and why bilinguals code switch as this are the essential questions that need to be addressed when looking at linguistic patterns of bilinguals. This study also incorporates stance, as a great tool for analysis of ways in which we can predict motivations for CS in bilinguals. In an endeavor to explain the language patterns in English-Swahili bilinguals in Memphis and Tallahassee Florida in the United States of America. The following study address how and why bilinguals code switch, and how different stance taking measures brings out the speaker identities. The …