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CHAPTER 7 FINDINGS triggers the English overweight term as well without giving extra meaning to the utterance. This particular instance, therefore, has been assessed as serving no meaningful sociopragmatic function. Code-switches to proper nouns are also considered as serving no sociopragmatic function. In the next example [26], the speaker recalls how they settled down in North Carolina, and she switches to English to mention the name of the place where her son-in-law was offered a job. Example [26] 1 GI1F51,80 Hat negyvenot évig éltiink New Yorkban, és a vejem ide kapott a Duke University, egyik ... legfinomabb igaz? (‘Well, we lived in New York for forty-five years, then my son-in-law was offered a job here at Duke University, one of the ... the most delicious, right?’) (source: data collected by Kovacs in 2008-2009) Borrowings have also been excluded from my investigation. In the example [27] below, the speaker mentions cocktail and tv as the very socio-cultural icons of American life. However, as these two words are well-established in Hungarian language as well, they are classified as borrowings and not as meaningful code-switches. Example [27] 1 G1M52,65“Amig nem veszitik el a cocktailt, meg a tv-t, amig van pénz, és mivel gazdag az ország, beszavazol egy hülyét mindenki 3 nemszenved miatta, mert van elég, ami terjed, mármint jólétben" (As long as they do not lose coctails and tvs, and there is money, and as the country is rich, you vote for a moron, nobody suffers from it, because there is enough that is spread, I mean in terms of prosperity’) (source: data collected by Kovacs in 2008-2009) The examples provided above serve as illustration of code-switched instances that have been excluded from the scope of my analysis, that is, they have not been included among the socio-pragmatically meaningful instances. All other instances have been analyzed qualitatively and quantitatively as well. In the table (49) below, all code-switched instances have been counted and classified. Although the direction of switching either from Hungarian to English, or from
