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- Oct 2020
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anth1300.commons.gc.cuny.edu anth1300.commons.gc.cuny.edu
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distinguished between his language (grammatical structure) and his style (language use)
Maybe this clarifies why they're using styleshifting as distinct from codeswitch?
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In much the same way that many bilingual/bicultural Americans codeswitch between two languages (English and Spanish, for example), many bilingual/bicultural Americans styleshift—move in and out of linguistic styles—between varieties of the same language (Puerto Rican English and White Mainstream English, for example).
What is the significance of differentiating between codeswitch and styleshift? Don't people use "codeswitching" to refer to switching between what the authors are distinguishing as "styles"?
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