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2023 - Volume 7 - Number 1

The Impact of Codeswitching in a Multilingual Speaker

Julide Guadalupe Barrón Ramírez * ORCID: 0009-0007-8820-986X
Universidad de Guanajuato, Division of Social Sciences and Humanities, Guanajuato, MEXICO

Open Journal for Anthropological Studies, 2023, 7(1), 1-6 * https://doi.org/10.32591/coas.ojas.0701.01001b
Received: 9 December 2023 ▪ Revised: 28 February 2023 ▪ Accepted: 11 April 2023

LICENCE: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

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ABSTRACT:
The aim for this paper is to present the results of a research conducted to identify the impact of codeswitching in a multilingual speaker. The research was conducted via electronic since the participant and the researcher are not in the same country. The results were obtained by an interview where the participant share her experience by being a multilingual speaker in Germany. The results show the effect and how the participant feel regarding the phenomenon of codeswitching.

KEY WORDS: code-switching, multilingual speaker, multicultural environment.

CORRESPONDING AUTHOR:
Julide Guadalupe Barrón Ramírez, Universidad de Guanajuato, Division of Social Sciences and Humanities, Guanajuato, MEXICO.

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