ABSTRACT
Code-switching (CS) is a common linguistic phenomenon that is observed in many multilingual contexts. In multilingual CMC research, the theme of code-switching is often pursued alongside language choice. Examples 3.1 and 3.2 are taken from two different studies of CS in computer-mediated discourse. Example 3.1 is a post from a thread on theinder.net, a discussion forum dedicated to German-based migrants from India studied by Androutsopoulos (2007, 2013c). The post is written predominantly in German, ending with a question asked in English. Example 3.2 is a “weather message” on a Chinese government-run microblog called Shanghai Release (Zhang, 2015). Different from the German post, this example exhibits a more even deployment of Chinese, represented in simplified characters, and English.
