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John M. Lipski
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The insertion of the English connective so and similar items into Spanish discourse of bilingual speakers in the United States does not fit easily into accepted typologies of code-switching and borrowing. Such insertions are found among fluent bilinguals, among English speakers who have learned Spanish as a second language, and among Spanish-speaking immigrants to the United States who have learned English as a second language. Insertion of so is typically done unconsciously and often passes unnoticed. This paper offers an analysis combining the variable status of inserted so as code-switch or congruent lexicalization and the sociolinguistic configurations that result in metalinguistic "bracketing" of Spanish discourse by English across a broad spectrum of speakers.
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Selected Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Spanish Sociolinguistics
edited by Lotfi Sayahi and Maurice Westmoreland
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ISBN 978-1-57473-405-8 library binding
vii + 132 pages
publication date: 2005
published by Cascadilla Proceedings Project, Somerville, MA, USA