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Glossary: The Code of the Street
Oct 28th 2009 – 12:01PM
Terms from Yale sociologist Elijah Anderson's book, "Code of the Street," that he says residents of poor urban areas use to describe themselves. ALSO SEE: The Code Fueling Chicago's Youth Violence Code of the street: Set of informal rules governing public behavior, particularly violence. There is a proper way to respond...
Background on code switching
In linguistics, code-switching is the concurrent use of more than one language, or language variety, in conversation.
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