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Essay from the year 2016 in the subject English - Miscellaneous, language: English, abstract: The article "A Language, A Soul" talks about code switching and all the instances it happens in. First, code switching is when bilingual people switch from one language to another while speaking. It occurs for several reasons, one of which could be to fill the gap in one of the languages. Another would be for social reasons, either to stand out, to fit in, to show a certain affiliation to an ethnic group, or to show authority. A third reason why people code switch is related to English language learning and teaching especially in Chinese classrooms. Finally, people tend to code switch in internet chatting too. To sum up, code switching is indeed a research area because it occurs on different levels and for different reasons.