The language of love: A micro-macro analysis of code switching in English in selected Filipino romance novels

• Main Author: Navera, Jocelyn Amor S.
• Format: text
• Published: Animo Repository 2013
• Subjects: Code switching (Linguistics)—Philippines; Romance fiction, Philippine; Other English Language and Literature; South and Southeast Asian Languages and Societies
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/faculty_research/8208
• Institution: De La Salle University

This study primarily aims to determine the motivations for code switching in English in the lovers' dialogue of ten (10) Filipino romance novels. It also wants to see if network, or the characters' socio-economic backgrounds and histories, would affect these motivations. Lastly, the study...