“Oh, I don’t even know how to say this in Spanish”

IF 0.4 4区 文学 0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS
Victoria Melgarejo, Mary Bucholtz
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Abstract

In the absence of complex and diverse Latinx characters in entertainment media, film and television representations of Latinxs’ culture and language typically embody limiting and harmful stereotypes. However, the highly praised U.S.-based romantic comedy-drama “Jane the Virgin” offers a very different representation. With believable characters and complex linguistic dynamics, the show provides a positive and relatively realistic representation both of Latinxs across generations and of their linguistic repertoires as documented in community studies of Latinx language. Through an analysis of the linguistic practices of Latinx characters in “Jane the Virgin,” including patterns of intergenerational language shift, linguistic accommodation, and codeswitching, it is argued that the show acknowledges and treats as unmarked the linguistic complexity of Latinx families and communities. At the same time, the show oversimplifies this complexity in some ways, creating a representation that may be perceived as authentic despite its divergence from real-world Latinx language use.
"哦,我都不知道这个用西班牙语怎么说"
在娱乐媒体中缺乏复杂多样的拉丁角色的情况下,电影和电视对拉丁文化和语言的表现通常体现了限制性和有害的刻板印象。然而,备受好评的美国浪漫喜剧《处女情缘》提供了一种截然不同的表现方式。凭借可信的人物和复杂的语言动态,该节目提供了跨代拉丁人的积极和相对现实的表现,以及拉丁语言社区研究中记录的他们的语言技能。通过分析《处女简》中拉丁角色的语言实践,包括代际语言转换、语言适应和代码转换的模式,认为这部剧承认并忽视了拉丁家庭和社区的语言复杂性。与此同时,该节目在某些方面过度简化了这种复杂性,创造了一种可能被认为是真实的表现,尽管它与现实世界的拉丁语使用有所不同。
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Spanish in Context
Spanish in Context Multiple-
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期刊介绍: Spanish in Context publishes original theoretical, empirical and methodological studies into pragmatics and sociopragmatics, variationist and interactional sociolinguistics, sociology of language, discourse and conversation analysis, functional contextual analyses, bilingualism, and crosscultural and intercultural communication with the aim of extending our knowledge of Spanish and of these disciplines themselves. This journal is peer reviewed and indexed in: IBR/IBZ, European Reference Index for the Humanities, Sociological abstracts, INIST, Linguistic Bibliography, Scopus
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