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A Study Of Code-Switching Among Educated Lebanese As Reflected In Television Talk Shows, Mona El Sayed El Samaty
A Study Of Code-Switching Among Educated Lebanese As Reflected In Television Talk Shows, Mona El Sayed El Samaty
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In sociolinguistics, code-switching (CS), refers to the alternative use by bilinguals of two or more languages in the san1e conversation. This exploratory study aims to investigate the CS phenomenon in Lebanon. It aims to find out the reasons/functions of CS, as well as to know the extent to which the code-switches observe or violate six universal syntactic constraints: the size of the constituent constraint, the conjunction constraint, the adjectival phrase constraint, the free morpheme constraint, the equivalence constraint, and the dual structure principle. The literature on research pe1taining to both aims of the study is reviewed. Moreover, in order to …