Resumen de Spanish-English code-switching among US Latinos

Almeida Jacqueline Toribio

• The present endeavor evaluates the linguistic attitudes and attributes that characterize and delimit code-switching practice among Spanish-English bilinguals in the United States, so doing with an aim toward establishing the (perceived) linguistic import of this communicative behavior as an intervening or catalytic variable in Spanish language attrition and loss, and its social import as a reflection or reconfiguration of Latino identity. Such an examination will afford a greater appreciation of the multiple and varied factors that enter into Spanish-English code-switching and will, in turn, contribute to our understanding of the linguistic situation of US Latinos more generally.