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| Title: | Perceptions of Spanish-English Code-Switching in Juarez, Mexico |
| Author(s): | Hidalgo, Margarita |
| Keywords: | Spanish-English, code-switching, Mexico |
| Issue Date: | 19-Apr-2009 |
| Publisher: | Latin American and Iberian Institute |
| Description: | The purpose of this paper is to discuss and interpret Mexicans' evaluations of Spanish-English code-switching by Mexican-Americans. Code-switching is here defined as alternating, continuous, and systematic stretches of Spanish and English in the same discourse. But researchers distinguish between intersentential and intrasentential switching: intersentential switching consists of switching languages at sentence boundaries, whereas "intrasentential switching involves the shift from language L1 to language L2 in the middle of a sentence, often with no interruptions, hesitations, pauses, or the other indiations of a major categorical shift....This type of language shifting, which is characterized by a smooth flow between English and Spanish, is common in most United States Hispanic communities..." (Lipski 1986, 2-3).
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| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/1928/7730
http://hdl.handle.net/10229/109797 |
| Appears in Collections: | LAII Research Paper Series
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