| Codeswitching refers to the use of more than two language varieties in one sentence or discourse. Since the 1970s, a lot of work has been done on this phenomenon by numerous scholars and experts. The study of codeswitching in China appears much later and lacks in data-based research and empirical studies. In order to enrich the data in Chinese-English codeswitching research, and to enlarge the research area of codeswitching, the present study chooses 294 popular songs containing Chinese-English codeswitching as the research object to analyze its grammatical and structural characteristics based on Myers-Scotton's Matrix Language Frame (MLF) model and the motivations for codeswitching with inspiration from previous studies. The results reveal that the motivations for codeswitching in songs are similar to those in daily conversations, but they also have their own characteristics. |
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