Relationship between code-switching and emotional identity in Junot Diaz's short stories*

Abstract The purpose was to check whether Yunior, character/narrator in three short stories by Junot Díaz (2012), reduces the use of code- switching (Cs) to Spanish (his first language, L1) from the first chronological story to the third one: “Invierno’; “Nilda&#821...

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Autores principales:	Sánchez,María Jesús, Pérez-García,Elisa
Lenguaje:	English
Publicado:	Universidad Católica Silva Henríquez 2020
Materias:	emotion code-switching acculturation attachment detachment
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spelling	oai:scielo:S0716-581120200002000912020-12-13Relationship between code-switching and emotional identity in Junot Diaz's short stories*Sánchez,María JesúsPérez-García,Elisa emotion code-switching acculturation attachment detachment Abstract The purpose was to check whether Yunior, character/narrator in three short stories by Junot Díaz (2012), reduces the use of code- switching (Cs) to Spanish (his first language, L1) from the first chronological story to the third one: “Invierno’; “Nilda’; and “The Pura Principle’, respectively. We hypothesize a reduction in the number of words used in his mother tongue and a decrease in emotional words, implying a change in his emotional identity. To this purpose, we qualitatively and quantitatively analyzed Yunior's Cs to L1. A change in Yunior's emotional identity could not be found, probably due to the small size of the vocabulary corpus and the lack of emotional ratings for many of these words. Yunior keeps using Cs to his L1 for family and intimate matters in the three stories and English when seeking detachment.info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessUniversidad Católica Silva HenríquezLiteratura y lingüística n.42 20202020-11-01text/htmlhttp://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0716-58112020000200091en10.29344/0717621x.42.2587
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spellingShingle	emotion code-switching acculturation attachment detachment Sánchez,María Jesús Pérez-García,Elisa Relationship between code-switching and emotional identity in Junot Diaz's short stories*
description	Abstract The purpose was to check whether Yunior, character/narrator in three short stories by Junot Díaz (2012), reduces the use of code- switching (Cs) to Spanish (his first language, L1) from the first chronological story to the third one: “Invierno’; “Nilda’; and “The Pura Principle’, respectively. We hypothesize a reduction in the number of words used in his mother tongue and a decrease in emotional words, implying a change in his emotional identity. To this purpose, we qualitatively and quantitatively analyzed Yunior's Cs to L1. A change in Yunior's emotional identity could not be found, probably due to the small size of the vocabulary corpus and the lack of emotional ratings for many of these words. Yunior keeps using Cs to his L1 for family and intimate matters in the three stories and English when seeking detachment.
author	Sánchez,María Jesús Pérez-García,Elisa
author_facet	Sánchez,María Jesús Pérez-García,Elisa
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title	Relationship between code-switching and emotional identity in Junot Diaz's short stories*
title_short	Relationship between code-switching and emotional identity in Junot Diaz's short stories*
title_full	Relationship between code-switching and emotional identity in Junot Diaz's short stories*
title_fullStr	Relationship between code-switching and emotional identity in Junot Diaz's short stories*
title_full_unstemmed	Relationship between code-switching and emotional identity in Junot Diaz's short stories*
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publisher	Universidad Católica Silva Henríquez
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Relationship between code-switching and emotional identity in Junot Diaz's short stories*

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