TY  - BOOK
AU  - Judyta Pawliszko
PY  - 2020
CY  - Berlin, Germany
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 2364-7558
SN  - 9783631811771
TI  - Sociolinguistic analysis of Mexican-American bilingualism: Spanglish as a sociocultural phenomenon
DO  - 10.3726/b16537
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1058714
N2  - 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.
LA  - English
ER  -