The Use Of Code Switching Between Arabic And English Languages Among Bilingual Jordanian Speakers In Malaysia

Code switching phenomena was investigated in different contexts where English is spoken as a first language (i.e. inner circle), English is spoken as second language (i.e. outer circle), and where English is spoken as a foreign language (i.e. expanding circle). However, very few studies addressed...

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Main Author:	Alaa Qasim Mohammad Al-Hourani
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Subjects:	Code switching (Linguistics) > Jordanian > Malaysia
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spelling	my-usim-ddms-131732024-05-29T05:47:20Z The Use Of Code Switching Between Arabic And English Languages Among Bilingual Jordanian Speakers In Malaysia Alaa Qasim Mohammad Al-Hourani Code switching phenomena was investigated in different contexts where English is spoken as a first language (i.e. inner circle), English is spoken as second language (i.e. outer circle), and where English is spoken as a foreign language (i.e. expanding circle). However, very few studies addressed the issue of code switching among Jordanian speakers in outer circle countries such as Malaysia. Therefore, this study was conducted to fill the gap in the literature. This research investigates the bilingual Jordanian speakers’ use of code switching in their daily oral interactions (i.e. formal and informal communicative events from a sociolinguistic perspective). This research identified the contexts in which Arabic-English code switching occurs, including the communicative events in which Arabic-English code switching occurs, described and investigated the functions of Arabic-English code switching among the bilingual Jordanian speakers in Selangor, Malaysia from a sociolinguistic perspective, investigated the code switching patterns and investigated whether the communicative events and the patterns of code switching influence each other. Following a qualitative research design, data were collected ethnographically from five Jordanian speakers by employing two tools of enquiry namely observation and semi-structured interview. Findings revealed that Jordanian speakers code switch in both formal and informal communicative events. Furthermore, Jordanian speakers code switch from English to Arabic and vice versa for several sociolinguistic functions i.e. to bridge the lexical gap, to quote someone's speech, to further explain a point, to exclude someone out of the conversation, and to demonstrate capability. In addition, findings revealed that there are two patterns of code switching that Jordanian speakers employed in their daily oral interactions namely intra-sentential and inter-sentential switching. However, intra-sentential code switching is used more frequently than inter-sentential code switching. Finally, the findings of this research revealed that the communicative events and the patterns of code switching do not influence each other. Universiti Sains Islam Malaysia 2016 Thesis en_US https://oarep.usim.edu.my/handle/123456789/13173 https://oarep.usim.edu.my/bitstreams/870ba626-0ea8-4ed3-8fac-dcb981bf7b02/download 8a4605be74aa9ea9d79846c1fba20a33 Code switching (Linguistics) -- Jordanian -- Malaysia Education, Bilingual -- English speakers -- Arabic speakers
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topic	Code switching (Linguistics) -- Jordanian -- Malaysia Code switching (Linguistics) -- Jordanian -- Malaysia
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description	Code switching phenomena was investigated in different contexts where English is spoken as a first language (i.e. inner circle), English is spoken as second language (i.e. outer circle), and where English is spoken as a foreign language (i.e. expanding circle). However, very few studies addressed the issue of code switching among Jordanian speakers in outer circle countries such as Malaysia. Therefore, this study was conducted to fill the gap in the literature. This research investigates the bilingual Jordanian speakers’ use of code switching in their daily oral interactions (i.e. formal and informal communicative events from a sociolinguistic perspective). This research identified the contexts in which Arabic-English code switching occurs, including the communicative events in which Arabic-English code switching occurs, described and investigated the functions of Arabic-English code switching among the bilingual Jordanian speakers in Selangor, Malaysia from a sociolinguistic perspective, investigated the code switching patterns and investigated whether the communicative events and the patterns of code switching influence each other. Following a qualitative research design, data were collected ethnographically from five Jordanian speakers by employing two tools of enquiry namely observation and semi-structured interview. Findings revealed that Jordanian speakers code switch in both formal and informal communicative events. Furthermore, Jordanian speakers code switch from English to Arabic and vice versa for several sociolinguistic functions i.e. to bridge the lexical gap, to quote someone's speech, to further explain a point, to exclude someone out of the conversation, and to demonstrate capability. In addition, findings revealed that there are two patterns of code switching that Jordanian speakers employed in their daily oral interactions namely intra-sentential and inter-sentential switching. However, intra-sentential code switching is used more frequently than inter-sentential code switching. Finally, the findings of this research revealed that the communicative events and the patterns of code switching do not influence each other.
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author	Alaa Qasim Mohammad Al-Hourani
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title	The Use Of Code Switching Between Arabic And English Languages Among Bilingual Jordanian Speakers In Malaysia
title_short	The Use Of Code Switching Between Arabic And English Languages Among Bilingual Jordanian Speakers In Malaysia
title_full	The Use Of Code Switching Between Arabic And English Languages Among Bilingual Jordanian Speakers In Malaysia
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The Use Of Code Switching Between Arabic And English Languages Among Bilingual Jordanian Speakers In Malaysia

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