Code-Switching Between Arabic and English in Selected Discourses

ABSTRACT

Code-switching is a linguistic phenomenon that has been studied on both written and spoken discourses in the recent years. This study is an attempt to analyze code-switching in selected discourses. The data were collected from Arabic Interviews on YouTube. The first interview 'Studying in the best university ever' is a broadcast by Abdullah Al-Alawy. The second interview 'Karak session' is with the broadcaster Mohammed Al-Hinai. The methodology of this study was a mixed (quantitative as well as qualitative) method. The research tries to answer three questions 1.How many code- switching Instincts from Arabic language to English language occurred in the selected discourses? 2. Is there any translation for the code-switching? If yes, then where the translation takes its place whether before or after the code- switching? 3. How many intra-word switching occur by using Arabic grammatical morphemes within these English code-switching? The research's primary goal is to improve our understanding of the instinctive uses of code-switching from Arabic to English. In this study I found that there are 101 occurrences of code-switching within about forty minutes of Arabic discourses. The most frequent type of code-switching in these two discourses was intra-sentential code-witching. While the least used one was inter-sentential code-switching. Most of the code-switching Instincts occurred without any translation to Arabic