27.446, Diss: English, Spanish, Discourse Analysis, Ling & Lit, Socioling, Text/Corpus Ling: Roshawnda Derrick: 'Code-switching, Code-mixing and Radical Bilingualism in U.S. Latino Texts'

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Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2016 11:42:03
From: Roshawnda Derrick [roshawnda.derrick at pepperdine.edu]
Subject: Code-switching, Code-mixing and Radical Bilingualism in U.S. Latino Texts

 
Institution: Wayne State University 
Program: Classical and Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures 
Dissertation Status: Completed 
Degree Date: 2015 

Author: Roshawnda Derrick

Dissertation Title: Code-switching, Code-mixing and Radical Bilingualism in
U.S. Latino Texts 

Dissertation URL:  http://digitalcommons.wayne.edu/oa_dissertations/1309/

Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis
                     Ling & Literature
                     Sociolinguistics
                     Text/Corpus Linguistics

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


Dissertation Director(s):
Eugenia Casielles Suárez
Nicole Trujillo Pagán
Hernán García
Felecia Lucht

Dissertation Abstract:

My dissertation, Code-switching, Code-mixing and Radical Bilingualism in U.S.
Latino texts  investigates the nature and significance of  Spanish-English
code-switching in U.S. Latino texts. I analyze fiction, creative non-fiction,
journalistic texts, songs, and social media messages and I carry out a
grammatical and sociolinguistic analyses of these texts. Although many of
these texts would fall into Torres’ (2007) Radical Bilingualism category, I
point out that there are in fact different ways in which a text can be
radically bilingual and I show that some of these texts are approaching Auer’s
(1999) notion of a fused lect. From a sociolinguistic point of view I consider
the local and global functions of code-switching and investigate if it is
becoming the unmarked code even in writing among U.S. Latinos. The analyses of
the texts and the information gathered through interviews with some of the
authors of the texts suggest that code-switching is not perceived as a sign of
linguistic incompetence, but as an important part of Latinos’ linguistic and
cultural identity.




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