A growing interest in code-switching – defined as “the alternative use by bilinguals of two or more languages in the same conversation”(Milroy and Muysken 1995) – has emerged over the last decades, ...

In sociology, code switching is when a person alters their speech to conform to different cultural norms. For example, marginalized people may use one way of speaking around their community and ...

Alfaro, Ph.D., is associate vice president of international affairs and professor of multilingual and global education at San Diego State University. She lives in Escondido. The visceral and powerful ...