Psychology 3140F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Code-Switching, Flag Of England, Code-Mixing

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 3140F/G
• Professor: Debra Jared

Document Summary

Code-switching: bilinguals switch back an forth between their languages in a conversation with other bilinguals, especially in informal settings: shows co-activation of languages in natural discourse, which suggests the need for a cognitive control mechanism. Why do bilinguals code switch: lack of language proficiency. Once thought to be a haphazard behavior due to some form of semi-lingualism. Occurs among very fluent bilinguals: studied for over 30 years by linguists, sociolinguists, and psycholinguists. It"s now clear that it"s a well-governed process used as a communicative strategy to convey linguistic and social information. Clinical psychology: altarriba and santiago-rivera: found that clients in a counselling situation often chose to speak in a second language when trying to distance themselves from emotional events. L1 is often associated with stronger emotions words in l1 are typically used for emotional conversations: language switching is a defense mechanism.