The Study Of Code-switching, Code-mixing And Linguistic Errorin Sino-Japanese Bilinguals

The researches on code-switching and code-mixing, on account of variousreasons (such as vague definition or view of the meaninglessness of distinguishingthem in linguistic perspective analysis etc., for instance) tend to make nodifferentiation of the two. In the present micro-researches of bilinguals, code-switching researches aremainly conducted with Matrix Language-Frame Model / MLF as theoreticalbackground. Therefore, this article, while applying the theory as such to the corpusanalysis, makes use of myriads of knowledge of theoretical linguistics (includingSino and Japanese grammar, pragmatics, cognitive linguistics etc..) to explorebilinguals' language. This article holds that code-switching is a conversational strategy. Observed inreference to speakers' effort and salience of focus, from lexical switching to sententialswitching extends a continuum. However, code-mixing is a cognitive and conceptiveblending. Observed from pragmatic motive and degree of distinction or manifestationin two languages, there exists a relationship of continuum between code-switchingand code-mixing. Besides, some differentiations between bilinguals' linguistic errorand code-mixing are also made. Different from code-mixing, as for the knowledge ofconcepts and things, few phenomena can be observed that one language affectsanother. But it is also recognized that the possibility of one language affecting anotheris not completely ruled out. So in the sense of the intensity of language interferenceand the surface grammatical relationship, that continuum still holds. This article adopts Common Underlying Proficiency in the case of bilingual'slinguistic competence;whereas, referring to the analysis of bilinguals' code-switching,code-mixing and linguistic error, this article re-hypothesizes the revised pattern.