Bilingual discourse markers in Puerto Rican Spanish  

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Torres, Lourdes

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Language in Society (ada di PROQUEST) vol. 31 no. 1 (Feb. 2002), page 65–83.
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This study examines bilingual discourse markers in a language contact sit- uation. The focus is on how English-dominant, bilingual, and Spanish- dominant New York Puerto Ricans integrate English-language discourse markers into their Spanish-language oral narratives. The corpus comprises 60 Spanish-language oral narratives of personal experience extracted from transcripts of conversations with New York Puerto Ricans. After a review of the study of discourse markers in language contact situations, the use of English-language discourse markers is compared to the use of Spanish- language markers in the texts. The discussion considers the question of whether English-language discourse markers are more profitably identified as instances of code-switching or of borrowing. Finally, the essay explores how bilingual speakers integrate English discourse markers in their narra- tives with a pattern of usage and frequency that varies according to language proficiency. (Languages in contact, bilingual discourse, discourse analysis, discourse markers)

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