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The author explores the implications of the phenomenon known as ""codeswitching"", where in given situations, different people with access to the same linguistic repertoire (or one person in various situations) will make different linguistic choices.

English language --- Discourse analysis. --- Social aspects. --- Variation. --- Dialects --- Germanic languages

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This book focuses on codeswitching as an urban language-contact phenomenon. The chapters discuss such topics as the politics of codeswitching, the role of using more than one language in social identity, attitudes toward multi-language use, and the way codeswitching may occur as a community norm.