“In the context of fiercely monolingual dominant cultures like that of the United States, code-switching lays claim to a form of cultural power: the power to own but not be owned by the dominant language... Code-switching is a rich source of wit, humour, puns, word play, and games of rhythm and rhyme.”

“In the context of fiercely monolingual dominant cultures like that of the United States, code-switching lays claim to a form of cultural power: the power to own but not be owned by the dominant language... Code-switching is a rich source of wit, humour, puns, word play, and games of rhythm and rhyme.”

— Mary Louise Pratt