Rachel Varra
List of John Benjamins publications in which Rachel Varra is involved.
Articles
2025 Chapter 2. Sociolinguistic dimensions of flagging behavior: The case of Spanish-English bilinguals in New York City Spanish Sociolinguistics in the 21st Century: Current trends and methodologies, Montes-Alcalá, Cecilia and Miguel García (eds.), pp. 33–67 | Chapter
Pauses, fillers (eh, um) and false starts (e.g. recu — recuperación) are often interpreted as ‘disfluency’ in monolingual and bilingual speech. Recent research on these elements (here called ‘flags’) increasingly recognizes their communicative functions, but few studies examine how… read more
2018 Reviving the unicorn: Linguistic reconsiderations for the existence of Spanglish Questioning Theoretical Primitives in Linguistic Inquiry: Papers in honor of Ricardo Otheguy, Shin, Naomi and Daniel Erker (eds.), pp. 209–244 | Chapter
This chapter engages the debate on the term Spanglish. Ricardo Otheguy asserts that the term Spanglish has no real-world referent and is “technically flawed.” In response, it is argued that the term Spanglish is neither objectively inaccurate nor technically flawed because the term Spanglish refers… read more