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ERIC Number: ED571766
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2016
Pages: 23
Abstractor: As Provided
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Trilingual Code-Switching Using Quantitative Lenses: An Exploratory Study on Hokaglish
Gonzales, Wilkinson Daniel Wong
Online Submission, Philippine Journal of Linguistics v47 p106-128 2016
Adopting a quantitative approach, this paper highlights findings of an exploratory study on Hokaglish, initially describing it as a trilingual code-switching phenomenon involving Hokkien, Tagalog, and English in a Filipino-Chinese enclave in Binondo, Manila, the Philippines. Departing from the (socio)linguistic landscape of the archipelagic nation, the discussion eventually leads to a frequency-based description of this phenomenon. Preliminary findings suggest that, in Hokaglish, code-switching from Hokkien to English appears to be the most frequent code-switching combination among the six possible ones and that it is typically found in religious institutions. From the investigation, Hokaglish yielded more attestations of intrasentential codeswitching than intersentential ones in households particularly. Moreover, findings also indicate that switches in the word-level are very frequent and that morphological code-switching is virtually non-existent in Hokaglish conversations. The paper ends with a discussion that will more or less provide some justification for the findings. A list of Glossing abbreviations is included.
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Philippines (Manila)
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