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Diachronic Study on the English: Chinese Code-Switching in Chinese Main-Stream Media Based on LiVaC Corpus

Authors
Qiaoyue Ren1, *
1Institute of Education, University College London, London, WC1E 6BT, UK
*Corresponding author. Email: qiaoyue.ren.22@ucl.ac.uk
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10.2991/978-2-494069-97-8_86How to use a DOI?
Keywords
Diachronic Study; English-Chinese Code-switching; Corpus; Main-stream Media
Abstract

This study is to use LiVaC corpus to investigate the changes in the patterns and frequency of the code-switching in different types of Chinese main-stream media text to figure out the type of the development in the frequency of the utilization of the code-switching in Chinese main-stream media text, and the pattern of the English-Chinese code-switching in the Chinese main-stream media text. The main findings were: 1) In some specific fields as automobiles, finance and entertainment, code-switching is often applied to special nouns and rarely applied to other communicative scenarios; 2) Due to cultural exchange and technological development, the amount of Chinese-to-English code switching in mainstream media texts in mainland and Hong Kong began to rise; 3) In the past 20 years, the proportion of mainland media using code-switching in commonly used words has gradually decreased; the rate of using code-switching in Cantonese in Hong Kong has also been gradually decreasing, but the trend is slower compared with that of Mandarin. This paper contributes to future corpus-based code-switching research, as well as to research on the application of Chinese-English code-switching in non-spoken situations and the impact of cultural integration and cross-cultural communication on language.

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Proceedings of the 2022 4th International Conference on Literature, Art and Human Development (ICLAHD 2022)
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Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
13 February 2023
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10.2991/978-2-494069-97-8_86
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2352-5398
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10.2991/978-2-494069-97-8_86How to use a DOI?
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© 2023 The Author(s)
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