What do bilinguals think about their code-switching?

Abstract

Much less attention has been paid to language attitudes in bilingual settings than to any other aspect regarding the different research topics studied in this field. However, it is a key area in bilingual studies as it gives linguists an insight into what bilinguals actually think about their speech production which could be utterly important for the analysis and interpretation of bilingual data. This paper is an empirical study in which the language attitudes of members of a Spanish/Galician community in London were studied with the purpose of finding out their attitudes to a specific strategy very often used by bilinguals, code alternation.