Intersectional And Intra-Sectional Code-Switching

PART B: CONTENT

The author’s purpose in writing this article is because they want to convince us that sociolinguistics is an important field of study if we wish to understand how and why code-switching works. The authors focus on the various ways intersectional and intra-sectional code-switching in Gapun is interacting with the overall language shift. More specifically, the purpose of the article is to focus on how the Tok Pisin and Taiap languages are used by the villagers in normal day-to-day conversations. Finally, the authors hope to find ways in which the mixing of the village vernacular and Tok Pisin are contributing to the interaction of the language shift in Gapun.

The vernacular is the native language spoken by the village population.

In particular, Kulick and Stroud’s research shows similarities in that even in a city with a large population of speakers speaking Tok Pisin, the speakers are still experiencing a language shift. Both articles also suggest that through the process of language shift, the vernacular could result in language endangerment. However, Kulick and Stroud’s article emphasize how code-switching interacts with language shift, rather than how code-switching interacts with language death and endangerment.

Through reading this article, it has helped me understand the concept of language shift. In particular, this article has helped me to understand that as people code-switch, they instantly uphold that certain language as it becomes part of their repertoire and they become familiar with it. As this process evolves, there becomes a language shift within certain communities and it is this language shift that influences language endangerment and

language death). My hypothesis is that due to the frequent use of code-switching and the large target population that exhibit this behavior, the village vernaculars will be abandoned entirely, which could ultimately lead to language death in the future. In order to determine the growth rates of the given language, multiple surveys or observational measures would need to be conducted. This would include data on the number of people that code-switch; the languages taught at schools, and each residents most commonly spoken languages in a ranked