"codeswitching" meaning in English

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          "text": "1998, RELC Journal, Volumes 29-30, SEAMEO Regional Language Centre, page 190,\nHendrik Boeschoten discusses the questions of codeswitching and language change and the possibility of a codeswitching norm."
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          "text": "2004, Michelle Hall Kells, Valerie M. Balester, Victor Villanueva, Latino/a Discourses, Boynton/Cook Publishers, Heinemann, page 27,\nWhat these beliefs fail to account for is the fact that codeswitching is a universal phenomenon of language contact, a mechanism of language shift as well as language change (Myers-Scotton 210)."
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