Mockery and Appropriation of Spanish in White Spaces: Perceptions of Latinos in the United States

The Handbook of Hispanic Sociolinguistics

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 646-663

  Schwartz, Adam ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PAN AMERICAN   (United States)

Author keywords

"Gringoism" a larger framework for mockery and appropriation Barrett, confirming the often racializing functions of Anglo appropriation of Spanish vocabulary and phraseology; "identity crisis" in lives of students language classrooms, capturing sense of productions in everyday language; Access to a set of pejorative cultural resources; Davis (2000), arguing that public White spaces defined by ideological, social and cultural "third borders" that "police daily intercourse between two citizen communities"; Just joking, denying racism in defense of "harmless fun" "calling out" of Mock Spanish or Gringoism, inviting trouble; Mock Spanish as "covert racist discourse" employing four indexical strategies; Mock Spanish, cultural and communicative discourse "American" (United States), monolingual and White in production; Mockery and appropriation of Spanish in White spaces Latinos'perceptions in United States, Spanish suffering from identity crisis; Spanish, in conventionalized representation in Hill's terms, as a symbolic resource; Spanish inspired humor in monolingual English discourse

Indexed keywords

EID: 84876252961     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444393446.ch30     Document Type: Chapter

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