Type
Text
Type
Thesis
Advisor
Davidiak, Elena | Ruiz-Debbe, Lilia D
Date
2014-12-01
Keywords
Language
Department
Department of Hispanic Languages and Literature.
Language
es
Source
This work is sponsored by the Stony Brook University Graduate School in compliance with the requirements for completion of degree.
Identifier
http://hdl.handle.net/11401/77690
Publisher
The Graduate School, Stony Brook University: Stony Brook, NY.
Format
application/pdf
Abstract
This study investigates why and how bilinguals speakers tend to code switch on social media such as; Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. Bilingual speakers who were born in the US, who adapted English as their second language or who have learned Spanish as their second language in school, usually tend to combine the two languages, English and Spanish, in order to get across their point of view to others. For this reason, this investigation was created to analyze how code- switching can influence people when it's exposed on media. There were three social medias with the total of 37 participants who had posted comments, status, pictures, videos in English, Spanish or mixing both where a good amount of people got influenced by. Therefore, the leading results were the following: (1) at every code switching done on any social media, users code switch or use the same style as a way to expand and influence others. (2) Users code switch as a way to expand a new culture and identity as being one big group. | 101 pages
Recommended Citation
Cueva, Daniel Stephan, "El Code Switching en las redes sociales: La expansión de lengua, cultura e identidad. | El Code Switching en las redes sociales: La expansión de lengua, cultura e identidad." (2014). Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions). 3481.
https://commons.library.stonybrook.edu/stony-brook-theses-and-dissertations-collection/3481