#3926. Variation in attitudes towards codeswitching and codeswitching frequency among multilingual speakers

August 2026publication date
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Abstract:
The current study replicates the research conducted in Dewaele and Li ([20XXa]. The findings indicate that multilingual respondents who have lived abroad or grew up in an ethnically and linguistically diverse environment tend to code-switch more frequently. On the other side, the number of spoken languages and gender as well as personality traits, such as tolerance of ambiguity, cognitive empathy, social skills and emotional reactivity are significantly linked with more positive attitudes towards codeswitching. Further in-depth analysis has shown that the respondents generally code-switch more frequently with friends and colleagues than with family members. However, some inter-speaker variation exists in this respect too and females and high-school respondents tend to code-switch more frequently with friends than males and more highly-educated respondents, while males and respondents with a higher educational level code-switch more frequently with work colleagues and family members.
Keywords:
attitudes; Codeswitching; frequency; personality traits; variation

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