One of our texts for this week is “What is Code Switching?” by Lisa Beasley. It’s probably not an unfamiliar concept to most of us. Beasley explains it for her viewer in about two minutes. It’s a concept at play in Amy Tan’s “Mother Tongue” among other texts we’ll read this semester.
In a comment below, share a link to another resource (video, blog post, dictionary definition, etc) about code switching. Some say that the term, the concept itself, is racist–so if that’s interesting to you to find out, please pursue that avenue. Then write a short explanation of what the resource you found offers us in our pursuit to understand code switching and what it has to do with discourse communities.
PS–When I watched Beasley’s video, the next several that auto-loaded were really good, too, so you might not have far to look!
PPS–but please don’t choose the same resource as someone else if you can help it!
Photo credit: “Technologic” by Hugo Chinaglia via Flickr under the license CC BY-NC 2.0 Deed.
https://youtu.be/A5GIfaexHwM?si=yXbOXkGY3JKLxFLD