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  • 12 - English and Spanish in Contact in North America

  • Edited by Danae Perez, Marianne Hundt, Johannes Kabatek, Daniel Schreier
  • Book:
    English and Spanish
    Published online:
    17 September 2021
    Print publication:
    30 September 2021, pp 233-257

  • Summary

    This chapter analyses language contact between English and Spanish in the United States in terms of de Swaan’s (2002) World Language System, which explains – among other things – why US Spanish, a variety that is regarded as low-prestige on the US national level and among many Hispanophone traditionalists, has nevertheless become influential and attractive throughout the Spanish-speaking world. Inspired by Appadurai’s (1996) model of cultural globalisation, the concept of languagescapes is introduced to account for the dynamics of Spanish-English language mixing across a wide range of spoken and written domains. Spanish-English code-switching has already been studied extensively in conversational data. Where the chapter breaks new ground is in exploring the specific features of code-switching performances in literature and in computer-mediated communication, which have to be seen both in the context of sociolinguistic community norms in the United States and against the background of a global linguistic ecology in which both Spanish and English occupy very important positions.