“…Thematic analysis of the 36 selected articles yielded four major issues addressed in code-switching studies revolving around concerns of identity, meaning constructions, persuasiveness and language style. More than half of the total number of studies focused the discussion on identity that can be further delineated into social identity (Albawardi, 2018;Baoueb, 2020;Martin-Anatias, 2018;Mohamed Nil & Paramasivam, 2012;Muller, 2015;Rafi, 2017), group marker (Barnes, 2012); Bentahila & Davies, 2002;Davies & Bentahila, 2008;White, 2019), ethnicity (Akande, 2013;Manns, 2014), and multilingual community (Pérez-Sabater, 2021; Pérez-Sabater & Moffo, 2019; Umpornpun & Mongkolhutthi, 2022). Constructions of meaning is another issue that has been frequently discussed in code-switching studies, researching the use of code-switching in relation to societal and cultural elements of discourse (Lin, 2017) and as meaning constructions (Chau & Lee, 2021;Schau et al, 2017;Yahiaoui et al, 2021).…”