Bilingual discourse markers in Puerto Rican Spanish
Bilingual discourse markers in Puerto Rican Spanish
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波多黎各西班牙语双语话语标记
作者：
Lourdes Torres
本研究考察了语言接触情境下的双语话语标记语。重点是以英语为主、双语和西班牙语为主的纽约波多黎各人如何将英语话语标记语整合到他们的西班牙语口头叙述中。语料库包括60个西班牙语的口头叙述的个人经验，从与纽约波多黎各人的谈话记录中提取。在回顾了话语标记语在语言接触中的研究之后，将英语话语标记语和西班牙语话语标记语在语篇中的使用进行了比较。讨论认为，英语话语标记语是否更有利的情况下，代码转换或借用确定的问题。最后，本文探讨了双语者如何将英语话语标记语整合到他们的叙述中，其使用模式和频率因语言水平而异。
This study examines bilingual discourse markers in a language contact situation. The focus is on how English-dominant, bilingual, and Spanish-dominant New York Puerto Ricans integrate English-language discourse markers into their Spanish-language oral narratives. The corpus comprises 60 Spanish-language oral narratives of personal experience extracted from transcripts of conversations with New York Puerto Ricans. After a review of the study of discourse markers in language contact situations, the use of English-language discourse markers is compared to the use of Spanish-language markers in the texts. The discussion considers the question of whether English-language discourse markers are more profitably identified as instances of code-switching or of borrowing. Finally, the essay explores how bilingual speakers integrate English discourse markers in their narratives with a pattern of usage and frequency that varies according to language proficiency.