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   🇺🇸 Steve McCarty 🇯🇵 (stevemccarty@hcommons.social)'s status on Monday, 29-Jul-2024 08:26:01 JST 🇺🇸 Steve McCarty 🇯🇵

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   • Jeff Jarvis

   @jeffjarvis Thank you for calling attention to linguistic issues. As a longtime bilingualism researcher, I was surprised to see code-switching mentioned in a political context, as it means switching languages syntactically in a conversation, which I often do between English and Japanese strategically.

   The video you shared clarifies that people switching ethnic dialects, registers, or accents should not be called code-switching but rather some alternative like style switching. As she emphasizes, everyone does it. Here in Japan where identity forefronts a person's role more than what they identify with, someone like my wife can have a different voice with each individual or type of interlocutor, like a bicycle with 50+ gears.

   My publications on bilingualism are accessible and easy to understand, with my educational background also in journalism: https://japanned.hcommons.org/bilingualism

   #bilingualism #language #languages #linguistics #syntax #politics #Japan

   @linguistics @academicchatter

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     Jeff Jarvis (jeffjarvis@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 29-Jul-2024 08:26:02 JST Jeff Jarvis

     A class on code-switching. https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTNQf16pu/

     Minoru Saba repeated this.