Essays about: "Code-switching"

Showing result 36 - 40 of 76 essays containing the word Code-switching.

1. 36. Code-switching and establishing the power of a dominant language. Issues in the lives of multilingual children in Sweden

   University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för pedagogik, kommunikation och lärande

   Author : Hiba Abou-Taouk; [2015-03-05]
   Keywords : mother tongue; perceive; code-switching; preschool; power;

   Abstract : In order to help children develop their mother tongue during preschool years, teachers need to have an understanding of how children perceive the function of their mother tongue in institutional settings. This study aims to explore what communicative function children assign the mother tongue. READ MORE

3. 37. “Visa oss ditt bästa warrior face”: A study of English in Swedish print advertisements

   University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för språk och litteraturer

   Author : Emelie Tenho; [2015-03-04]
   Keywords : English in media; language in advertisements; code switching; English as a global language;

   Abstract : Abstract: The purpose of this essay is to shed some light as to how many English words can be found in the print advertisements of an everyday newspaper Metro, as well as investigating what type of companies are prone to using English in their advertisement and furthermore, the location of English words in the advertisements. A distinction was made between English and Swedish words by counting them and furthermore, categorising companies in terms of what they aimed to sell and whether or not they included English in their advertisements. READ MORE

4. 38. How Does Code-Switching Affect Group Members? An Exploratory Study on Feelings, Thoughts and Behaviors in Controlled Group Settings

   University essay from Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för företagande och ledning

   Author : Anders Schmachtenberg; Franziska Oberhauser; [2015]
   Keywords : code-switching; language; groups; emergent states; ethnographic experiments;

   Abstract : With the rise of multinational companies it has become ever more important for corporations to be able to operate effectively in linguistically diverse environments. Employees thereby have to act across linguistic barriers; nevertheless, they frequently engage in code-switching (CS), the switching from one language to another. READ MORE

5. 39. Crosslinguistic influence in the Arabic of Iraqi Arabic-Swedish bilingual children (5-7) in Sweden

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för lingvistik och filologi

   Author : Mohaned Ridha; [2015]
   Keywords : Iraqi Arabic-Swedish bilingual children; Arabic first language acquisition; crosslinguistic influence; bilingualism; code-switching; loan translation; transfer; Multilingual Assessment Instrument for Narratives MAIN .;

   Abstract : The aim of this study is to investigate crosslinguistic influence in the Arabic language of Iraqi Arabic-Swedish bilingual children (5-7) who live in Sweden. The scope is to study lexical, morphological and syntactic uses in the children’s speech that do not belong to the Iraqi Arabic variety (IAV). READ MORE

6. 40. Across Borders: Migrancy, Bilingualism, and the Reconfiguration of Postcolonialism in Junot Díaz’s Fiction

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Masterprogram: Litteratur - Kultur – Media; Lunds universitet/Litteraturvetenskap

   Author : Laura Fennell; [2015]
   Keywords : migrancy; migration; bilingualism; postcolonialism; Junot Díaz; other; Languages and Literatures;

   Abstract : Equipped with Junot Díaz’s novel The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (2007) and his collections of short stories Drown (1996) and This Is How You Lose Her (2012), this thesis interprets the fundamentals of migrant literature, studies Díaz’s tools of migrant depiction, and examines contemporary postcolonial and migrant discourse. This is performed in three integral segments of study. READ MORE