The influence of emotion on English codeswitching within Dutch reviews.
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2021-07-05
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Codeswitching has become a common linguistic element in today’s communication. Many people all around the world have gained a second language and/or gained influences from other languages because of globalisation. Within this study, the influence of emotion on codeswitching was investigated with the use of a corpus study. For this, 125 Dutch reviews from the site TripAdvisor were coded in which the reviewer codeswitched to English. The results showed that the rating of the review did affect the number of codeswitches of the review since neutral reviews had significantly more codeswitch cases compared to positive reviews. It also showed that codeswitching does not occur more often in words that carry emotion. There was also no influence of emotion on the motivation behind codeswitching. There was an effect of with whom the reviewer travelled on the number of codeswitches.
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