SPANGLISH

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SPANGLISH

• An Example of Bilingualism

Hablo un mix de los dos languagés
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Spanglish

• A short Spanglish conversation
• Anita "Hola, good morning, como estás?"
• Mark "Good, y tú?"
• Anita "Todo bien. Pero tuve problemas
  parqueando mi carro this morning."
• Mark "Sí, I know. Siempre hay problemas
  parqueando in la area at this time".

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Whats going on

• Code-switching - moving from one language to
  another in normal conversation (it is very
  important to honor you abuelitas (grandparents)"
  
• Borrowing - the adaptation of an English word
  into a Spanish form ("Quiero parquear el coche")
• Direct translation - translation of an expression
  directly into Spanish using English syntax ("Te
  llamo para atrás" for "Ill call you back")
• Phonetic translation - the childrens cold remedy
  'Vicks VaporRub' affectionately becomes
  "bibaporú"

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Where.

• Varieties
• Tex-mex (or Chicano) Mexican-based in Texas
• Cubonics Cuban-based in Florida
• Newyorican Puerto Rico-based in New York

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A sampling of Spanglish
A Selection of Spanglishaeróbica (ay-RO-bi-ka) --
dynamic female. averaje (a-ve-RAH-je) --
average. boila (BOY-lah) -- heating appliance,
boiler. carpeta (kar-PE-tah) -- carpet. chopin
(TCHO-peen) -- 1.Shopping center mall. 2. n.,
going shopping. deiof (dey-OF) -- day off.
frizer (FREE-zer) -- refrigerator. grocear
(gro-SEAR) -- to acquire groceries.
jonrón (khon-RON) -- home run. lonche (LONCHE)
-- 1. midday meal. 2. food served to guests at
event.marqueta (mar-ke-tah) -- supermarket.
pari (PA-ree) -- a party. ruki (ROOH-kee) --
novice. From Spanglish The Making of a New
American Language (Rayo, an imprint of
HarperCollins)  
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Spanishization Phonological adaptation

• Final C dropping
• Fast food ? fas foo fas fu
• C softening
• phen ? pen
• kuba ? kubHa
• Final nasal substitution (m ? n)
• Steam stim ? estin
• Initial schwa insertion in sC
• Speak ? espeak
• (Complete) labialization of v
• Venezuela ? benezuela
• Defricativization of š
• Shopping ? chopping

WHY???
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Spanishization Morphological adaptation

• Spanish Verbalizer in English verbs
• Hang out ? hangear (-ar -ear are Spanish
  verbalizers)
• Lunch ? lonchar
• Spanish nominalizers in English verbs
• Leak?likeo (or liqueo) eo/-eroSpanish
  nominalizers
• Park ? parkeo
• Holdup(pers) ? joldoperos
• Spanish inflection for English words
• Latin(girl or boy)?Latina/Latino (-a/-o mark
  gender)
• (It could also be considered a pure borrowing)

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Englishization Is also possible

• embarkated
• (a Spanish word embarcar or let someone down,
  is inflected with English morphology)

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Reasons for this type of bilingualism

• Cultural identity
• Naturalness
• Language gaps
• English is concise and efficient
• Spanish has sabrosura, flavor (Clark, p. 486)
• Informality (humor creativity)
• Social status

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Assimilation or Acculturation?
Silvana Paternostro Lets take that argument a
little bit further. If they dont learn
English, they also will not follow the rules of
what being an American means? Ilan Stavans
Right. English is the great equalizer. Through
language comes education, through language comes
political participation, language becomes the way
of being and of dreaming, and all that, and then
the I love you, America. And that is not
happening. author of Spanglish The Making of A
New American Language
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Accommodating

• Acculturation cultural modification of an
  individual, group, or people by adapting to or
  borrowing traits from another culture also a
  merging of cultures as a result of prolonged
  contact
• Not Assimilation to absorb into the culture or
  mores of a population or group