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1 novembre 2020
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emotion code-switching acculturation attachment detachmentSujets proches
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María Jesús Sánchez et al., « Relationship between code-switching and emotional identity in Junot Diaz's short stories* », Literatura y Lingüística, ID : 10670/1.5dlzrg
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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.