Laura Callahan

List of John Benjamins publications in which Laura Callahan is involved.

Title

Spanish/English Codeswitching in a Written Corpus

Laura Callahan

Spanish/English codeswitching in published work represents a claim to the right to participate in the marketplace on a bilingual and not just monolingual basis. This book offers a syntactic and sociolinguistic analysis of the codeswitching in a corpus of thirty texts: novels and short stories… read more

[Studies in Bilingualism, 27] 2004. viii, 181 pp.

Article

Callahan, Laura 2014 The importance of being earnest: Mock Spanish, mass media, and the implications for language learners Spanish in Context 11:2, pp. 202–220 | Article

Mock Spanish is a register in which Spanish words or phrases are used in otherwise English language texts or utterances to evoke humor, often indexing an unflattering image of Spanish speakers. This paper examines the occurrence of Mock Spanish in mass media, of interest in part because its use… read more