ABSTRACT

Participants read English-based online texts from fictional organizations that either included no code-mixing, Hawaiian words without glosses (i.e., parenthetical translations), or Hawaiian words with English glosses. Relative to no code-mixing, code-mixing without glosses disrupted processing fluency, leading participants to feel less welcome in the organization. Code-mixing with glosses did not disrupt fluency for participants from Hawai‘i, where this practice is common, but did for people from elsewhere. No differences in feeling welcome emerged between code-mixing with glosses and no code-mixing conditions. These results suggest that code-mixing in written organizational materials can have both costs (i.e., disrupted fluency) and benefits (i.e., cueing inclusiveness), and that these effects depend on audiences’ familiarity with code-mixing as a practice, and the format of code-mixing.

摘要

参与者阅读来自虚构组织的基于英语的在线文本，这些文本要么不包含代码混合，要么不包含注释的夏威夷语单词（即括号翻译），或者包含英语注释的夏威夷语单词。相对于没有代码混合，没有注释的代码混合会破坏处理的流畅性，导致参与者在组织中感觉不太受欢迎。对于来自夏威夷的参与者来说，带有注释的代码混合并没有影响流畅性，这种做法在夏威夷很常见，但对于来自其他地方的人来说却有影响。有注释的代码混合和无代码混合条件之间的受欢迎程度没有差异。这些结果表明，书面组织材料中的代码混合既有成本（即破坏流畅性）也有好处（即提示包容性），