Sheniqua is an african american girl. when she is at school, she speaks standard english. when she is at home, she speaks african american english. her words, tone, and body language change in each setting. sociologists call this:

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Sheniqua is an african american girl. when she is at school, she speaks standard english. when she is at home, she speaks african american english. her words, tone, and body language change in each setting. sociologists call this:

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Cecelia Nielsen · Answer 1

Sociologists call this "Code-switching".

Code-switching happens when a speaker interchanges between at least two dialects, or dialect assortments, with regards to a solitary discussion. Multilinguals, some of the time utilize components of different dialects while talking with each other. In this way, code-switching is the utilization of in excess of one linguistic variety in a way reliable with the language structure and phonology of every assortment.