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.
Author(s): Judyta Pawliszko
Series: Studies in Linguistics, Anglophone Literatures and Cultures 26
Publisher: Peter Lang
Year: 2020
Language: English
Pages: 282
Sociolinguistic analysis of Mexican-American bilingualism: Spanglish as a sociocultural phenomenon
Contents
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
Rationale for the topic
Aims and scope
Methodology and subjects
1 Bilingualism
Introduction
1.1 First/primary language – second/other language
1.2 The scholarly concept of bilingualism
1.3 Typology of bilingualism
1.4 Diglossia and bilingualism
1.5 Research on bilingualism
1.6 Two languages – two worlds?
Summary
2 Bilingual Speech Characteristics
Introduction
2.1 Interference
2.2 Borrowings
2.3 Code-switching
Summary
3 Spanglish Development
Introduction
3.1 Assumptions behind Spanglish
3.2 Types of Spanglish
3.3 The linguistic features of Spanglish
3.4 Hybrid nature of Spanglish
3.5 Promoting Spanglish
Summary
4 Mexican Immigrants in Los Angeles
Introduction
4.1 Historical panorama of Mexican immigration to the USA
4.2 Geographical distribution
4.3 Characteristic of the surveyed diaspora
4.4 Linguistic situation of Mexicans in Los Angeles
4.5 Ethnic identity and cultural situation of Mexicans in Los Angeles
4.5.1 Research design
4.5.2 Data analysis
Summary
5 Data Analysis
Introduction
5.1 Social view of bilingualism and Spanglish
5.2 Individual bilingualism
5.3 Mexican-American immigrants’ speech characteristics
5.3.1 Interference
5.3.2 Borrowings
5.3.2.1 Thematic classification of borrowings
5.3.2.2 Quotations
5.3.2.3 Phonological adaptation
5.3.2.4 Morphological adaptation
5.3.3 Code-switching
Summary
Conclusions
Appendices
Appendix 1: Questionnaire for monolingual and bilingual speakers
Appendix 2: Questionnaire for bilingual immigrants
Appendix 3: A set of questions used in the examination of a casestudy
List of Figures
List of Tables
References
Back Matter
