Code switching in text messages : Malay-English bilinguals

• Main Author: Yusra Mohamed Ya’acob
• Other Authors: Guinevere Barlow
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2016
• Subjects: DRNTU::Humanities
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/66199
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Code switching is a common phenomenon in bilingual speech and has been thoroughly studied by linguists (Scotton & Ury, 1997; Appel & Muysken, 2005; Gardner-Chloros, 2009). However, studies on code switching in the written form have only recently been on the rise (Al-Khatib & Sabah, 2008;...