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Sociolinguistic Analysis of Mexican-American Bilingualism: Spanglish as a Sociocultural Phenomenon

Judyta Pawliszko

Book 26 of Studies in linguistics. anglophone literatures and cultures

PublisherPeter Lang
PublishedJan 1, 2020
LanguageGerman

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.