Question 99Asked in CTET February 2026 Paper 2 Maths & Science, 1 Mar 2026 + 1 more paper

When monolingual speakers move from formal to informal modes of speech in the same spoken or gestured idea, it is called :

  1. ACode-mixing
  2. BDialect
  3. CCode-switching
  4. DSlang
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Correct answer: (C) Code-switching

Explanation

Shifting between varieties or registers of speech (e.g. formal to informal) within a conversation is called code-switching.

From CTET February 2026 Paper 2 Maths & Science, 1 Mar 2026 — Previous Year Paper

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