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A Study of Code-Switching in Newsletter Articles Written by Native English Speakers Residing in Japan STOTT, Nigel STOTT Nigel code-switching lexical borrowing sociolinguistics writing Code-switching is typically described as,“going from one language to the other in mid-speech”(Cook,1996,p.83).Although most research concentrates on oral interaction, this paper looks at code-switching found in newsletter articles written by and for native English speakers residing in Japan, so it may help to broaden the picture in this field of sociolinguistics. In this investigation, it was found that Japanese words, phrases, or quotations occurred in 77.8％ of articles and was employed by88.9％ of article writers. Suggestions are given as to why these writers used code-switching and statistical analysis of the data reveals that the greatest influence on switching was probably article topic, but that individual characteristics such as age may also have played a part, although Japanese ability did not seem to affect use. 福岡県立大学人間社会学部 2006-03-17 eng departmental bulletin paper https://fukuoka-pu.repo.nii.ac.jp/records/336 110008605648 AA11875546 13490230 福岡県立大学人間社会学部紀要 Journal of the Faculty of Integrated Human Studies and Social Sciences, Fukuoka Prefectural University 14 2 31 50 https://fukuoka-pu.repo.nii.ac.jp/record/336/files/1402_3Stott.pdf application/pdf 390.4 kB 2018-02-25