Code-switching in Chicano Theater - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Code-switching in Chicano Theater write by Carla Jonsson. This book was released on 2005. Code-switching in Chicano Theater available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Language Mixing and Code-Switching in Writing
Language Mixing and Code-Switching in Writing - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Language Mixing and Code-Switching in Writing write by Mark Sebba. This book was released on 2012-05-22. Language Mixing and Code-Switching in Writing available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Code-switching," or the alternation of languages by bilinguals, has attracted an enormous amount of attention from researchers. However, most research has focused on spoken language, and the resultant theoretical frameworks have been based on spoken code-switching. This volume presents a collection of new work on the alternation of languages in written form. Written language alternation has existed since ancient times. It is present today in a great deal of traditional media, and also exists in newer, less regulated forms such as email, SMS messages, and blogs. Chapters in this volume cover both historical and contemporary language-mixing practices in a large range of language pairs and multilingual communities. The research collected here explores diverse approaches, including corpus linguistics, Critical Discourse Analysis, literacy studies, ethnography, and analyses of the visual/textual aspects of written data. Each chapter, based on empirical research of multilingual writing, presents methodological approaches as models for other researchers. New perspectives developed in this book include: analysis specific to written, rather than spoken, discourse; approaches from the new literacy studies, treating mixed-language literacy from a practice perspective; a focus on both "traditional" and "new" media types; and the semiotics of both text and the visual environment.
Spanish/English Codeswitching in a Written Corpus
Spanish/English Codeswitching in a Written Corpus - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Spanish/English Codeswitching in a Written Corpus write by Laura Callahan. This book was released on 2004. Spanish/English Codeswitching in a Written Corpus available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Spanish/English codeswitching in published work represents a claim to the right to participate in the marketplace on a bilingual and not just monolingual basis. This book offers a syntactic and sociolinguistic analysis of the codeswitching in a corpus of thirty texts: novels and short stories published in the United States by twenty-four authors between 1970-2000. An application of the Matrix Language Frame model shows that written codeswitching follows for the most part the same syntactic patterns as its spoken counterpart. The reasons why some written codeswitching is considered to be artificial or inauthentic are examined. An overview of written codeswitching research is given, including titles of many texts in addition to the corpus that contain codeswitching between diverse languages. The book concludes with a look at how codeswitching is used by writers to attain their objectives, and what the implications may be for the relative positions of Spanish, English, and Spanish/English codeswitching in the United States.
Landscapes of Writing in Chicano Literature
Landscapes of Writing in Chicano Literature - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Landscapes of Writing in Chicano Literature write by I. Martín-Junquera. This book was released on 2013-12-17. Landscapes of Writing in Chicano Literature available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Adding nuance to a global debate, esteemed scholars from Europe and North and Latin America portray the attempts in Chicano literature to provide answers to the environmental crisis. Diverse ecocritical perspectives add new meaning to the novels, short stories, drama, poetry, films, and documentaries analyzed in this timely and engaged collection.
Spanish-English Codeswitching in the Caribbean and the US
Spanish-English Codeswitching in the Caribbean and the US - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Spanish-English Codeswitching in the Caribbean and the US write by Rosa E. Guzzardo Tamargo. This book was released on 2016-09-07. Spanish-English Codeswitching in the Caribbean and the US available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume provides a sample of the most recent studies on Spanish-English codeswitching both in the Caribbean and among bilinguals in the United States. In thirteen chapters, it brings together the work of leading scholars representing diverse disciplinary perspectives within linguistics, including psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics, theoretical linguistics, and applied linguistics, as well as various methodological approaches, such as the collection of naturalistic oral and written data, the use of reading comprehension tasks, the elicitation of acceptability judgments, and computational methods. The volume surpasses the limits of different fields in order to enable a rich characterization of the cognitive, linguistic, and socio-pragmatic factors that affect codeswitching, therefore, leading interested students, professors, and researchers to a better understanding of the regularities governing Spanish-English codeswitches, the representation and processing of codeswitches in the bilingual brain, the interaction between bilinguals’ languages and their mutual influence during linguistic expression.
