Analysis Of Code - Switching In TVB Professional Play In Hong Kong

Code-switching is a language common life more complex linguistic phenomenon, it is influenced by the British colonial Hong Kong makes the language of the region controlled by a strong English. Language is a reflection of people’s daily lives, TVB drama career truly reflects the various sectors of Hong Kong professionals in language usage. Hong Kong TVB drama produced career there are a lot of code-switching phenomenon. These code-switching has a certain type and model, we play by TVB career corpus transcribed to discover the existence of these types of code-switching and mode. Motive play of code-switching performance of internal and external factors, internal factors often for their own attitudes toward language, communication will be based on the principles of the party to move closer to a more favorable or deviate from the other language. External factors are based on the session’s identity relationship, talk occasions, communicative topics, language and customs to decide. We can also see that code-switching has the function. TVB drama career in code-switching, we can see exhibits of shortening and pull away from the feelings of emotional function; TVB drama occupation code-switching identity and stressed that both sides have a clear conversation scenes social function; TVB drama career code-switching has emphasis, change the subject, disambiguation, adjust the atmosphere of pragmatic functions. TVB professional theater is a true reflection of life in Hong Kong, language, different occupations reflecting different code-switching characteristics of vocational drama. In recent years there has been in professional play more code-switching between Cantonese and Mandarin, which also reflects the exchanges between Hong Kong with the mainland closer.