On Code-switching in Chinese Popular Songs from the Perspective of Adaptation Theory

With the advancing of Globalization,the language contact among people all over the world has become increasingly frequently.As the direct outcome of the language contact,code-switching has deeply rooted in people’s daily life as a common phenomenon which has drew great concerns.This paper aims at doing the research based on Chinese popular songs as the corpuses which are collected from the Internet with the method of empirical studies.First the corpuses are classified according to different criteria and then with the theory of Adaptation,code switching has been studied through the adaptation to social conventions,linguistic realities and the psychology motivations.As a normal linguistic as well as social phenomenon,code-switching should be treated with strict and respect.

With the advancing of Globalization, the language contact among people all over the world has become increasingly fre-quently. As the direct outcome of the language contact, code-switching has deeply rooted in people’s daily life as a common phe-nomenon which has drew great concerns. <br> This paper aims at doing the research based on Chinese popular songs as the corpuses which are collected from the Internet with the method of empirical studies. First the corpuses are classified according to different criteria and then with the theory of Adaptation, code switching has been studied through the adaptation to social conventions, linguistic realities and the psychology motivations. As a normal linguistic as well as social phenomenon, code-switching should be treated with strict and respect.