Detranslation: Spanglish from a neurolinguistic point of view

• Autores: Ángel López García
• Localización: Círculo de lingüística aplicada a la comunicación, ISSN-e 1576-4737, Nº. 56, 2013, págs. 3-25
• Idioma: español
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  • Despite currently growing sociolinguistic research on Spanglish, it is a very peculiar linguistic variety, which cannot be understood without a careful analysis of its neurolinguistic background. This paper argues that a theoretical neurolinguistic view on Spanglish has to consider the cortex, where English-like words are located, the limbic system, where Spanish paradigms are stored, and the bundles of nerves that bind up both of them. Spanglish is an example of detranslation, a kind of negative translation.

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