Category Archive for 'Linguistics'

The paper, “Code-Switching Among English and Swiss-German Speaking Couples” is a proposal for a hypothetical research project in linguistics, and it was a collaboration between Azra von Niederhäusern-Hodzic and me. We worked on the premise that native speakers of both languages will eventually code-switch during a conversation, no matter how consistently they try to stick to one language.

The study of accents is by no means a field of interest that is solely claimed or dealt with by linguists in academia. The aim of this paper is to discuss the general awareness of accents in the United States of America, which becomes particularly obvious when browsing the Internet. I discuss three different ways [...]