Tagalog-english code switching as a mode of discourse

@article{Bautista2004TagalogenglishCS,
  title={Tagalog-english code switching as a mode of discourse},
  author={Maria Lourdes S. Bautista},
  journal={Asia Pacific Education Review},
  year={2004},
  volume={5},
  pages={226-233},
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:145684166}
}
The alternation of Tagalog and English in informal discourse is a feature of the linguistic repertoire of educated, middle- and upper-class Filipinos. This paper describes the linguistic structure and sociolinguistic functions of Tagalog-English code switching (Taglish) as provided by various researchers through the years. It shows that the analysis of Taglish began with a linguistic focus, segmenting individual utterances into sentences and studying the switch points within the sentence. Other… 
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