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Polylingual Code Switching in the Academic Discourse

The article considers the problem of code switching in the academic discourse as a type of language contacts when English is used as the main component due to its flexibility and popularity. Approaches of Russian and foreign linguists to the interpretation of bilingualism and multilingualism from the theoretical point of view are analyzed. Types of code switching and their peculiarities are described. Multilingual code switching and its features are focused on. The fragment of the lecture in the academic course “Safety and durability of buildings and structures” as a kind of the academic discourse is examined in order to identify cases of code switching typical of the participants of the discourse, namely students from Iraq who have come to Russia to do a Master’s course in “Civil Engineering”, and to explain the factors that affect the choice of a language in a specific situation.