Redressing ethnic conflict through morphosyntactic “creativity” in code-mixing

• Published in: Language & communication Vol. 20; no. 4; pp. 311 - 327
• Main Author: Clachar, Arlene
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford Elsevier Ltd 01.10.2000; Pergamon Press Inc
• Subjects: American English; Bilingualism; Caribbean Cultural Groups; Case studies; Code Switching; Code Switching (Language); Cultural Background; Discourse Strategies; English; Ethnicity; Immigrants; Language; Language Attitudes; Language Culture Relationship; Language Use; Linguistic Theory; Linguistics; Migrant Workers; Morphology (Languages); Puerto Ricans; Puerto Rico; Spanish; Syntax; United States > US; Puerto Rico

Explores the code mixing behaviors of Puerto Rican return immigrants in interaction among themselves in order to observe how their dual ethnic experience is reflected in the theory of code-mixing behaviors. Subjects were 13 Puerto Rican immigrants who were born in New York City and had been in Puert...