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CHAPTER 7 FINDINGS Hungarian and American lives by recalling their relevant experiences. In order to contrast American and Hungarian ways of life and their personal experience, subjects rely on the discourse-related functions that code-switches fulfill. As the principle of Perspective includes the most discourse-related subfunctions, as opposed to Face, Solidarity, and Power fulfilling sociopragmatic functions reflecting interpersonal relations, it is likely to be the most numerous in the sample. Faith is also an inherent part of bi- or multilingual speakers’ discursive accounts of different experiences accumulated in different cultural settings. Instances of Faith-related code-switches index culture-bound notions, related to the subjects’ different cultural scripts - American and Hungarian -, prevalent and/or absent in different cultures. Therefore, Faith is also expected to be prevalent in the sociolinguistic interviews, actually, it has turned out to be the second most frequently occurring function in the examined set of data. According to Bolonyai and Bhatt’s proposed ranking in the HungarianAmerican set of data?’’, Solidarity ranks below Faith and Perspective but above Face and Power, which equally rank as the lowest constraints. As for the principles subsuming the sociopragmatic functions of code-switches reflecting interpersonal relations (Face, Power, and Solidarity) rather than fulfilling discourse-related functions, fewer instances are expected to emerge. As the particular genre of my set of data is sociolinguistic interviews, few examples of face-related linguistic choices — face-saving or face-loss games between the subjects or in the setting of the sociolinguistic interviews — are expected. Bolonyai and Bhatt claim that the ranking of Solidarity, Power and Face and their interrelational position is more subject to the “socio-relational” context”. As the socio-relational context depends on a given community’s sociolinguistic characteristics, the ranking of Solidarity, Face and Power is susceptible to these community sociolinguistic variables, while the ranking of Perspective and Faith depends more on the discourse-related functions that code-switches are expected to fulfillin a given context. Therefore, in light of this, I claim that Perspective and Faith as the highest ranked constraints involve the ‘discourse-related’ functions of code-switching, characteristic of bi- or multilingual speech communities. Solidarity, Face and Power, however, fall within the category of ‘socio-relational’ functions of code-switches with their interrelational ranking being susceptible to the given micro-linguistic and -social context of the code-switched utterance. Hence, what remains to be examined is the hierarchical positioning of Perspective, Faith, Solidarity, Face, and Power as well as the operation of these supposedly ranked constraints in concrete situations. 27 Bhatt — Bolonyai, Ibid., 522-546 2°8 Bhatt — Bolonyai, Ibid., 522-542
