21.4307, Qs: Bilingual Service Encounters

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Subject: 21.4307, Qs: Bilingual Service Encounters

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Date: 27-Oct-2010
From: Francesca Zappulla [Francesca.zappulla at gmail.com]
Subject: Bilingual Service Encounters
 

	
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Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2010 15:01:13
From: Francesca Zappulla [Francesca.zappulla at gmail.com]
Subject: Bilingual Service Encounters

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I'm an Italian student from the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart of 
Milan. My name is Francesca. I'm working on a thesis in English 
Linguistics about service encounters with Latino people in the United 
States. In particular I'm looking for materials about service encounters 
between American workers and Latino customers in America and the 
phenomenon of code-switching between English and Spanish.

I thought I could ask for some advice on how and where to find an 
official linguistic corpus about those encounters. Here in Italy it is quite 
difficult to find books, articles, or other resources on this subject and 
I'm stuck trying to collect background material to work on. If anyone 
could please give me any suggestions I would be very grateful. 

I look forward to receiving replies! 

Best regards,
Francesca 

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics
                     Discourse Analysis
                     Sociolinguistics
                     Text/Corpus Linguistics

Subject Language(s): English (eng)
                     Spanish (spa)




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