Socialization into the workplace is a challenge faced by new foreign workers in multilingual societies. One underexplored factor in the process is code‐switching. We presented a case study of how a Filipino migrant integrated into her Hong Kong workplace where the local veterans used code‐switching at work. Conceptualizing the workplace as Communities of Practice (Wenger 1998), we employed Gee's (2011) model of discourse analysis to examine empirical workplace discourse. Our analysis suggests that for a newcomer, code‐switching indicates desire of socialization, negotiation of membership, linguistic competence, and professional abilities, and that for a veteran, code‐switching reveals situated identities, instantaneous relationships, openness to newcomers, and encouragement to them. We argue that code‐switching is performed by foreign newcomers and local veterans for workplace socialization and mutual identification.
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