| Journal: | Revista de humanidades |
| Database: | CLASE |
| System number: | 000417268 |
| ISSN: | 1405-4167 |
| Authors: | Carpenter, Carol1 |
| Institutions: | 1Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey, Monterrey, Nuevo León. México |
| Year: | 1996 |
| Number: | 1 |
| Pages: | 138-151 |
| Country: | México |
| Language: | Inglés |
| Document type: | Artículo |
| Approach: | Analítico, descriptivo |
| English abstract | Spanglish is a language variety practiced among Hispanics living in the United States , especially those of Mexican, Puerto Rican or Cuban descent. Also referred to as code-switching, it is characterized by the inclusion of both English and Spanish components either between or within sentences. Code-switching is a prerequisite for participation in a bilingual conversation, and increased esposure to this practice enhances a speaker´s proficiency in producing mixed language sentences with the code alteration appearing at random syntactical junctures within each sentence. The speaking of Spanglish is a sociopolitical identity marker among Hispanics. Seven texts of prose, poetry and song lyrics that exhibit varying degrees of code switching are examined, and it is found that there is a very close relation between the frequency of words in English and Spanish and the length of phrases in each language with a slight preference for English in both cases |
| Disciplines: | Antropología, Literatura y lingüística |
| Keyword: | Antropología de la cultura, Antropología lingüística, Análisis del discurso, Forma y contenido literarios, Gramática, Historia y filosofía de la lingüística, Lingüística aplicada, Literatura y sociedad, Semántica y semiótica, Sociolingüística |
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