A Systemic Functional Approach to Code-switching in Chinese Magazines

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10.2991/ssemse-15.2015.27How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Code-switching; Metafunction; Magazine

Abstract

With Halliday’s functional grammar as the theoretical framework, this paper examines the functions and distributions of code-switching in three different types of magazines from the perspective of experiential, interpersonal, and textual metafunctions. It has found that in experiential function, code-switching plays the function of filling the vocabulary vacancy, quoting and abiding the cultural constraints; in interpersonal aspect, it plays the function of evaluation and involvement; in textual construction, the function of code-switching is mainly concentrated in lexical cohesion level. This paper tries to provide readers a better understanding of the functions of code-switching.

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© 2015, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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