Code-Switching In Chicano English

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Code-switching is ability to switch from one language to another in the same sentence or utterance. (Bhatia and Ritchie 2004: 284) . This process in concerned with bilingual or multilingual people. In case of Chicano English, code-switching consists of English and Spanish. Many bilinguals Latinos switch from English to Spanish and from Spanish to English very often. Code-switching can concern more than two languages. 1.1.3. Dialect Dialect refers to the variety of language, which has differences from standard language and it is characteristic for individual group of speakers. “The term dialect is used to describe features of grammar and vocabulary as well as aspects of pronunciation” (Yule 2010: 240). Chicano English which will be describe …show more content…

Mostly occur among minority groups. Bilingualism when is concerned with the minority group seems to be at the level of the individual. In this case, a member of a minority group speaks in one language in his linguistic community (e.g., family) and then learns another language in order to understand bigger linguistic community (e.g., school). For instants, child who grew up in Latino family in the USA, speaks Spanish at home and English at school (Yule 2010: 244). However, in case of Chicano, English is a native language and then people learn Spanish (anyway is not necessary) as a second. They start to learn Spanish because of their Mexican origins. Most of Chicanos are bilingual. 1.1.5. Spanglish Spanglish is a hybrid language, came into existence from combination of English and Spanish (Aulahispánica n.d.). Due to large Latino community in the United States, Spanish is the second most spoken language. Most of Latinos are bilingual however, some of them are monolingual. Spanglish based on code-switching. Spanglish consist in switching from English to Spanish or from Spanish to English in the same utterance. Futhermore, in Spanglish some English words take to Spanish look. For instance, 'to Google' becames Googlear or 'to check' becomes Chequear (Speaking Latino

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