Code switching and Animal Communication

• switching from one language to another

  code switching
• This is the concurrent use of more than one language, or language variety, in conservation.

  code switching
• Types of Code switching

  1. Intrasentential
• Types of code switching

  Intersentential
• mostly observed in grammar instruction wherein the teacher shifts his language to the mother tongue of his students dealing with a particular grammar points

  Topic switch
• for the expression of emotions , and used by teacher to build solidarity and friendly relations with the students

  affective
• to transfer the necessary knowledge to the students for clarity

  repetitive functions
• code-switching to the native tongue by using the native equivalence of a certain lexical item in the target language.

  Equivalence
• used by the students to avoid communication gaps, which may result from the lack of fluency in the target language.

  floor-holding
• clarifying a message which has already been transmitted in one code but not understood

  reiteration
• the process wherein the students tends to avoid misunderstanding or tends to utter words indirectly for specific purposes.

  conflict control
• 7 properties that are largely unique to human language

  duality, creativity, displacement, interchangeability, cultural transmission, arbitrariness, and biology.
• Female chimpanzee named after Noam chomsky

  Nim chimpsky
• switching between 2 languages which occurs after a sentence in the L1 has been completed and the next sentence starts with a new language

  intersentential
• refers to the alternation in a single discourse between two languages, where the switching occurs within a sentence.

  intrasentential