Date:  Fri, 17 Dec 1993 10:33:52 CST

From:  salikoko mufwene <mufw[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]MIDWAY.UCHICAGO.EDU>

Subject: Re: modren metathesis



Rudy:

 You can enlist the support of Carol Myers-Scotton, who published two books

on the subject matter recently. She uses "code-switching" the way you do.

Without the suggestion of incompetence in your discussion, I thought the

term "mixing" might be a better umbrella/cover term then "switching,"

because it covers traditional cases of both "switching" (intersentential)

and "mixing" (intrasentential). Mixing languages in a discourse may amount

to traditional code-switching. A mixed language is one in which codes

associated with different systems (without excluding variation in each of

them) are used together. Without any condemnation of what I know Scotton

does and you may be doing, I thought that between "switching" and "mixing,"

the latter would have been a more adequate terminological choice.

Technically, I see traditional cases of "code-switching" as kinds of

code-mixing.

Sali.

Salikoko S. Mufwene

Linguistics, U. of Chicago

s-mufwene[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]uchicago.edu

312-702-8531