Code Switching and Code Mixing of Romanian-Hungarian Bilingual Communities in Transylvania
Code Switching and Code Mixing of Romanian-Hungarian Bilingual Communities in Transylvania

Author(s): Eva-Carmen Marton
Subject(s): Social Sciences, Language studies, Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Scientia Kiadó
Summary/Abstract: ‘Code switching and code mixing in Romanian–Hungarian bilingual communities in Transylvania,’ as the title implies, focuses on the characteristics of the speech of bilingual communities in Transylvania, specifically, the Hungarian minority. Focus is assigned to the phenomena of code mixing and code switching. Given the number of different opinions in the linguistic community on the phenomena, an all-agreed upon definition is not yet available; thus, the different points of view are discussed and analyzed based on examples. The examples given are abstracted from recorded conversations of bilingual speakers. Based on these observations, the reader of this paper should be able to construct a global image on the phenomenon of code switching and code mixing which are happening in Transylvania.

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