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This 5 page paper compares and contrasts two articles on code-switching. The articles are discussed. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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studying code-switching are drastically different. The first article to be examined is by Shana Poplack. Poplack (1980) begins an article entitled "Sometimes Ill start a sentence Spanish y termino
en espanol; toward a typology of code-switching" by suggesting that many Puerto Ricans claim that their native tongue is Spanish. The author goes on to say that while this may
be the case, there seems to be a decline in the use of Spanish overall. This article also proposes a study and reports on it. The author has decided to
target a community in Harlem to be used as an example (Poplack, 1980). Poplack studies the community through participant observation, the evaluation of attitudes, and a sociolinguistic analysis as well
(Poplack, 1980). One section in the article talks of code switching. This concept is of course the focus of the entire article. The concept is noted as something that
"is the alternation of two languages within a single discourse, sentence or constituent" (Poplack, 1980, p. 582). Code switching is discussed in depth, and then the sample used in the
study is noted (Poplack, 1980). The methodology employed is outlined, and this includes methods of data collection as well as coding procedures (Poplack, 1980). In analyzing the results, many
observations are made. The author writes: "Perhaps the most striking result of this study is that there were virtually no instances of ungrammatical combination of L1 and L2 in the
1835 switches studied, regardless of the bilingual ability of the speaker" (Poplack, 1980, p.609). In the Discussion portion, the author notes that she has demonstrated a way to include both
extralinguistic and linguistic factors into one analytical model in order to evaluate code switching practice (Poplack, 1980). The author concludes that the act of code switching is not considered to
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