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5 Reasons People Code Switch

Published on Nov 07, 2016

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Today in coat switching.

4 Reasons People Code Switch

From NPR's Code Switching Blog 
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"But we're looking at code-switching a little more broadly: many of us subtly, reflexively change the way we express ourselves all the time. We're hop-scotching between different cultural and linguistic spaces and different parts of our own identities — sometimes within a single interaction". -- npr.org

"Our lizard brains take over."

Without meaning to, we may adopt an accent or a language!!
My "ya'll" example.

"We want to fit in."

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"We want to say something in secret."

"We want something."

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Code-switching
in written communications...

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Emailing.

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Texting.

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