Tagalog or taglish : preferred medium of communication among Filipino non-fluent bilinguals in Philippine cities

• Main Author: Go, Mikhail Alic C.
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Animo Repository 2012
• Subjects: Filipino factory labor workers; Filipino lower class; codeswitching; code alternation; lexical borrowing; accommodation/convergence; divergence/over-under accommodation; communication
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/etd_masteral/4334; https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/context/etd_masteral/article/11172/viewcontent/CDTG005291_P.pdf
• Institution: De La Salle University

The present study aims to investigate the preferred mode of discourse among Filipino factory labor workers. A total of seventy labor workers were observed for nine months dating from November 2011 to July 2012. Additionally, twenty-eight of them were informally interviewed. An audio-recorder was fur...