Cixiu Duan
Last week, three PhD candidates gave an impressive lecture about multilingualism. A part of their presentation was about code-switching, mainly situational code-switching and metaphorical code-switching. In this blog, I would like to explore more about code-switching in the workplace.
When I was doing an internship in a foreign company in Shanghai, I noticed an interesting phenomenon. Although all of my colleagues are Chinese and Mandarin is our first language, we sometimes mix English words in the conversation. For example:
Boss: 慈修，你update一下这个report, 然后email给我，顺便cc一下John (Cixiu, please update the weekly report, email it to me and cc John in the email.）
Me: 没问题 （No problem）.
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