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Selected Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Spanish Sociolinguistics edited by Lotfi Sayahi and Maurice Westmoreland ISBN 1-57473-405-9 library binding vii + 132 pages publication date: 2005 published by Cascadilla Proceedings Project, Somerville, MA, USA Table of contents Abstract John M. Lipski Code-switching or Borrowing? No sé so no puedo decir, you know 1-15 (complete pdf) 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. |