Spanglish en los Estados Unidos: Apuntes sobre lengua, cultura e identidad
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This study presents some thoughts on the usage of so called "Spanglish" language in the United States. Its aim is that of looking at the potential facilitative effect the usage of Spanglish has in helping Hispanic and Anglo- Saxon speakers, who do not share either English or Spanish, to achieve communicative goals in particular communicative contexts. The literature has acknowledged that Spanglish relies on code-switching and code-mixing, switches and mixtures which can also be described as characteristics of the hybrid identity of many Latinos in the United States. In this paper we do not get into the details of the peculiarities of national identities (i.e. Cubans, Dominican Americans, Mexicans, Puerto Ricans and the like), we rather propose to look at the phenomenon of Spanglish in its hybrid aspect, which is what, in our view, makes it complex and fascinating from the perspective of mixed identities in intercultural contexts. El presente estudio muestra el estado del spanglish en los Estados Unidos, a través de algunas reflexiones sobre este fenómeno. Hemos intentado observar la utilidad que esta forma comunicacional puede tener en determinados contextos para facilitar la comunicación entre hispanos y anglosajones que conviven en los Estados Unidos, que no comparten el mismo idioma, y en donde la comunicación es la meta final. El cambio de códigos (code-switching) y la mezcla de códigos (code-mixing) entre el inglés y el español - manifestaciones que diversos investigadores consideran típicas del spanglish-, representan el modelo de la identidad mestiza de muchos latinos en los Estados Unidos. Con este ensayo tratamos de reflexionar sobre algunos puntos para intentar profundizar y comprender este fenómeno tan complejo, y actualmente tan discutido.Downloads
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Betti, S. (2009). Spanglish en los Estados Unidos: Apuntes sobre lengua, cultura e identidad. Confluenze. Rivista Di Studi Iberoamericani, 1(2), 101–121. https://doi.org/10.6092/issn.2036-0967/1653
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