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Selected Works of Kate Mangelsdorf
Article
Spanglish as Alternative Discourse: Working Against Language Demarcation"
CRoss-Cultural Relations in Composition (2010)
  • Kate Mangelsdorf, University of Texas at El Paso
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Abstract
This chapter explores the notion of language demarcation as related to standard language ideologies and the notion of language "purity." Spanglish is used as a case study. Connections to race, nationality, and class are developed. This book won the 2012 Outstanding Book Award from the Conference on College Composition and Communication.
Keywords
  • spanglish,
  • writing,
  • language,
  • code meshing
Disciplines
Publication Date
2010
Citation Information
Kate Mangelsdorf. "Spanglish as Alternative Discourse: Working Against Language Demarcation"" CRoss-Cultural Relations in Composition (2010)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/kate_mangelsdorf/6/