ISwitch

Spanish-English Mixing in Computer-Mediated Communication

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ID12987828
AuthorsCecilia Montes-Alcalá (0000-0003-0336-2990, Georgia Institute of Technology, corresponding author)
Year2015
Volume9
Issue1
Pages23-48
Publication date2015-12-19
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Language Contact (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1955-2629 • E-ISSN: 1877-4091
PublisherBrill (PUBLISHER • NL)
DOI10.1163/19552629-00901002
OpenAlexW2248764114
LanguageEN
Citations received14
References cited10

Technology, and the Internet in particular, have rapidly transformed the means of communication in the 21 st century, opening the door to a novel and fertile ground of research. What takes place when bi- or multilingual individuals sit at the keyboard has been the focus of several studies exploring computer-mediated communication ( cmc ). However, there appears to be a lack of research dealing specifically with Spanish-English language mixing online, a surprising fact given that Spanish is the third language of the Internet and its use has grown 800% in the last decade. The present work analyzes and compares data from three different sources of cmc (e-mail, blogs, and social networks including Facebook and Twitter) among Spanish-English bilinguals in an attempt to further explore the still relatively new field of “electronic code-switching”. The study aims to outline the reasons behind bilingual individuals’ language mixing online, hypothesizing that it will accomplish many of the socio-pragmatic functions traditionally ascribed to oral code-switching along with, perhaps, other uses idiosyncratic of cmc . Furthermore, it intends to emphasize the cultural nature of code-switching, a crucial component that has often been overlooked in the search for grammatical constraints

Code (set theory · Code-mixing · Code-switching · Component (thermodynamics · Computer-mediated communication · Field (mathematics · Focus (optics · Linguistics · Mixing (physics · Neuroscience of multilingualism · Programming language · Sociology · The Internet · World Wide Web · Computer Science · Digital Communication and Language · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Multilingual Education and Policy

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