Edición Instituto Cervantes at FAS - Harvard University
Estudios del Observatorio/Observatorio Studies. 077-04/2022EN (Trans.)
Abstract: This volume brings together a series of texts —previously presented at conferences, tributes, lectures, and in some publications— on linguistic, socio-cultural, and political aspects of Spanglish/espanglish. After an introduction dealing with the issue of language contact and the evolution that it causes in languages, a series of chapters are presented on the linguistic categorization of Spanglish, the psycholinguistics of this phenomenon, and its social implications, as well as how it is practised in the U.S. media, the ideological connotations that its recognition and use entail and, finally, its relationship with translation. Upon completing this multidisciplinary journey, the volume concludes that Spanglish, a rara avis of linguistics, should not be considered a language but a psychological dialect that manifests itself as a bilingual practice in permanent transformation.
Keywords: Spanglish, espanglish, language contact, EE. UU. Spanish, bilingualism, ideology.