“Code-Switching Among English and Swiss-German Speaking Couples” by Azra von Niederhäusern-Hodzic and Laureen Zanotti
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. We took the stance that there are certain words in English and Swiss German which are more prone to be subject to code-switching than others. To be more precise, we proposed that the English word ‘cozy’ and the German word ‘Treffpunkt’ do not have a satisfying equivalent in the other language.