Linguist John McWhorter notes that many middle-class African Americans typically speak both Black English and Standard American English, alternating between the two, often in the same sentence. This ability is an example of

a. code switching.
b. accents.
c. bypassing.
d. phatic language.
e. jargon.


a

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