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An Analysis of Chinese-English Code-Switching on Campus from the Perspective of Register

Liang Wei-hua

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Since the 1970s,scholars have made various researches on code-switching from different angles.Campuses are natural places for the occurrence of code-switching.Turning from the social,psychological and morpho-syntactic studies,this article analyzes Chinese-English code-switching on campus in terms of field of discourse,tenor of discourse,and mode of discourse,i.e.three essential factors of M A K Halliday's register theory,so as to find a new reasonable explanation for the frequent occurrence of this complicated linguistic phenomenon.

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Key concepts: Register (sociolinguistics), Code-switching, Perspective (graphical), Linguistics, Phenomenon, Code (set theory), Field (mathematics), Sociology