Sociolinguistic Variation of the English Language

1.3.2.5. Personal variation

• Code and code-switching
• Code (language code) – languages, dialects, jargons and stylistic varieties of the same language regarded as a means of communication. All these – separate languages or varieties of one language – in sociolinguistics sometimes receive the name of language formations. The sum total of codes and subcodes used in a given language community that complement each other functionally is called social-communicative system.

1.3.2.5. Personal variation

• Code and code-switching
• Depending on the sphere of communication the speaker switches from one language means (one code) to another. This alteration between varieties, or codes which takes place in individual utterances, or even across sentences or clause boundaries is called code-switching. This phenomenon is identified as the reason of for intraspeaker variation.

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