Evaluative reactions to Panjabi/English code?switching
- 1 January 1984
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis Ltd in Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development
- Vol. 5 (6), 447-473
- https://doi.org/10.1080/01434632.1984.9994174
Abstract
In this paper we report the results of a pilot study which was designed to elicit experimentally evaluative reactions to Panjabi/English code‐switching. The experimental procedure was adapted from the ‘matched guise’ technique developed by Lambert et al. (1960). The difference here is that the speech samples which we asked subjects to rate represented not different languages or varieties/accents of the same language, but varieties which draw on two languages, Panjabi and English, to differing degrees. Our results are in line with those of similar experiments done on evaluative reactions to speech. That is, the same speaker is evaluated in different ways depending on how he speaks. The different types of code‐switched discourse were found to be related to external dimensions such as perceived fluency in English and Panjabi, intelligibility and expressivity.Keywords
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