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by talloaktrees 3392 days ago
no. code switching is mixing multiple languages, often in a single sentence.
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That's one definition, but it has expanded into "Both in popular usage and in sociolinguistic study, the name code-switching is sometimes used to refer to switching among dialects, styles or registers" according to(1)

(1)http://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2013/04/08/176064688/...