ABSTRACT
Luxembourg is a multilingual nation where language switching is very common. There are many journals which include articles analysing the language use patterns of multilingual speech communities. In Paraguay, whether the interaction takes place in a rural as opposed to an urban setting is crucial to appropriate language choice. Many bilinguals and multilinguals are adept at exploiting the rhetorical possibilities of their linguistic repertoires. Domain is clearly a very general concept which draws on three important social factors in code choice – participants, setting and topic. The term diglossia describes societal or institutionalised bilingualism, where several varieties are required to cover all the community's domains. A domain involves typical interactions between typical participants in typical settings. Sociolinguists who study the kind of rapid code-switching have been interested in identifying not only the functions or meaning of switches, and the stylistic motivations for switches, but also the points at which switches occur in utterances.
