EMOTIONS AND LANGUAGE CHOICE IN ARABIC-ENGLISH CODE SWITCHING AMONG JORDANIAN UNIVERSITY STUDENTS

Abstract

The research explores the relation of feelings to the choice of language between Jordanian students in Arabic and English. This research explores how emotions will cause differences between Arabic and English. Facebook is chosen for a analysis in which students at Jordanian universities use code changes from Arabic to English. By contradictory experiments, the research problematises the theory. The analysis thus gives concrete justification for the effect of feelings on the use of language and the changing of code. A focus group of 10 participants is then held for data collection. These participants are chosen by means of a deliberate sampling method, for Jordanian university students who use English-Arabic code shifting in their Facebook communication. The results show that there are no links between language choice and code shift on the one hand, and the emotion of the other, following data analysis using INTENCHECK. Finally , the researcher suggests that code modifications from certain variables such as phonological variations be clarified.