Modern Family is a wildly popular comedic television show that currently has ten seasons and has won twenty-two Emmy awards (Television Academy, 2018). A central character to the show, Gloria Pritchett, came to the United States from Colombia and married Jay Pritchett, a native English-speaker. Throughout its ten season run, Gloria displays various occasions where she code-switches in scenes often shared with her mother, Pilar. As a result of cultural upbringing and the culture married into, Gloria and Pilar mainly code-switch between English and Spanish, often displaying inter-sentential and intra-sentential code-switching. Inter-sentential code-switching refers to the speaker switching between languages from sentence to sentence; whereas, intra-sentential refers to the speaker inserting or substituting words or grammar from one language to another in the middle of a sentence.
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