Laura Callahan

List of John Benjamins publications for which Laura Callahan plays a role.

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Subjects Discourse studies | English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Multilingualism | Pragmatics | Romance linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology

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Mock Spanish is a register in which Spanish words or phrases are used in otherwise English language texts or utterances to evoke humor, often indexing an unflattering image of Spanish speakers. This paper examines the occurrence of Mock Spanish in mass media, of interest in part because its use… read more