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"Spanglish" and Identity within and outside the Classroom
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Dumitrescu, Domnita – Hispania, 2013
The session that the AATSP organized at this year's MLA Convention in Boston (held on January 4, 2013) was dedicated to a topic that has been the object of constant debate in the past decades: the use of "Spanglish" as a marker of identity among US Latinos. The author states that she puts "Spanglish" into quotation marks…
Descriptors: Spanish, English, Code Switching (Language), Hispanic Americans
"Who Soy Yo?": The Creative Use of "Spanglish" to Express a Hybrid Identity in Chicana/o Heritage Language Learners of Spanish
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Sanchez-Munoz, Ana – Hispania, 2013
This study explores various linguistic strategies that characterize what is commonly referred to as "Spanglish"; namely, code-switching, code-mixing, borrowings and other language contact phenomena commonly employed by Chicana/o bilinguals. The analysis of linguistic features is based on creative pieces of writing produced by Chicana/o…
Descriptors: Spanish, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Self Concept
From Bilingual to Mixtilingual Speech: "Code-Switching" Revisited.
Titone, Renzo – Rassegna Italiana di Linguistica Applicata, 1988
Offers several justifications for the claim that code-switching is a positive, not a negative, phenomenon. Included are three examples of "mixtilingual" poetry: poetry "mixing languages" in order to evoke different feelings and images within a certain cultural context. The poems mix English and Spanish, English and Italian, and Italian and…
Descriptors: Biculturalism, Bilingualism, Code Switching (Language), Creative Writing