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- Title
Attitudes towards code-switching among young and middle-aged Kannada-English-speaking adults.
- Authors
Niharika, M. K.; Suman, Suresh; Aishwarya, S. Y.; Harshitha, H. N. Gurkar
- Abstract
Code-switching (CS) is a natural sociolinguistic phenomenon in bilingualism. This study investigated the attitudes of young and middle-aged Kannada-English-speaking adults towards CS. A total of 254 participants (143 young and 111 middle-aged) participated in this online survey. The survey included four components: demographic characteristics, proficiency, attitude and sentence acceptability task. Further, the study examined the relationship between age, proficiency, acceptability judgments and attitudes toward code-switching. Frequency analyses estimated the number and percentage of occurrences of the categorical variables. Chi-square test of association assessed the relationship between sociolinguistic variables such as age and language proficiency. Results revealed that participants generally had a positive attitude towards code-switching. The effects of age on attitudes towards CS are discussed. Overall, the study intended to draw insights regarding attitudes towards CS in India.
- Subjects
CODE switching (Linguistics); BILINGUALISM; ENGLISH language education; ADULTS; SOCIOLINGUISTICS
- Publication
Journal of Monolingual & Bilingual Speech (JMBS), 2021, Vol 3, Issue 2, p195
- ISSN
2631-8407
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1558/jmbs.18542