A grammatical and sequential analysis on the code-switching behaviours of Thai multilinguals while gaming

Using the grammatical and interactional approach to code-switching studies, this thesis presents a case study of how a group of Thai multilingual teenagers perform code-switching while gaming. The grammatical approach was used to analyse the frequency and typology of the participants’ code-switching, and analysis found that video gaming influences the syntactic categories in which participants code-switch to. A method from the interactional approach called sequential analysis was used to reveal the ways participants employed code-switching to organise their discourse. The findings of the study suggest that participants perform code-switching differently while gaming than in regular conversational contexts, and that code-switching is used as an additional resource by multilingual teenagers to achieve particular conversation goals in interaction.