Description
Product ID: | 9783631806654 |
Product Form: | Hardback |
Country of Manufacture: | DE |
Series: | Studies in Linguistics, Anglophone Literatures and Cultures |
Title: | Sociolinguistic analysis of Mexican-American bilingualism: Spanglish as a sociocultural phenomenon |
Authors: | Author: Judyta Pawliszko, Agnieszka Uberman |
Page Count: | 282 |
Subjects: | Sociolinguistics, Sociolinguistics, Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics, Semantics, discourse analysis, etc |
Description: | Select Guide Rating The main purpose of the book is to describe the two linguistic-cultural phenomena arising from mass emigration of Mexicans to Los Angeles: Spanish-English bilingualism and Spanglish. The main thesis of the research is the correlation between Spanish-English bilingualism and Spanglish. As public opinion deemed Spanglish as a blocker for linguistic advancement or degraded Spanish, it is actually a method of enhancing the linguistic system. That is why, not only does the research contest the use of such terms, but it also argues that bilingualism is a much more compound and adequate term as well as an analytic framework for the study of bilingual productions. Spanglish should be understood as a form of bilingualism, a hybrid enriching the linguistic system. The main purpose of the book is to describe the two linguistic-cultural phenomena arising from mass emigration of Mexicans to Los Angeles: Spanish-English bilingualism and Spanglish. The main thesis of the research is the correlation between Spanish-English bilingualism and Spanglish. As public opinion deemed Spanglish as a blocker for linguistic advancement or degraded Spanish, it is actually a method of enhancing the linguistic system. That is why, not only does the research contest the use of such terms, but it also argues that bilingualism is a much more compound and adequate term as well as an analytic framework for the study of bilingual productions. Spanglish should be understood as a form of bilingualism, a hybrid enriching the linguistic system. |
Imprint Name: | Peter Lang AG |
Publisher Name: | Peter Lang AG |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2020-01-14 |