Spanish Heritage Speakers' Spanish and English Writings: Contrastive Rhetorical and Linguistic Analyses
Spicer-Escalante, Maria L.
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Title
Spanish Heritage Speakers' Spanish and English Writings: Contrastive Rhetorical and Linguistic Analyses
Author(s)
Spicer-Escalante, Maria L.
Issue Date
2002
Doctoral Committee Chair(s)
Escobar, Anna Maria
Department of Study
Spanish
Discipline
Spanish
Degree Granting Institution
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Degree Name
Ph.D.
Degree Level
Dissertation
Keyword(s)
Education, Bilingual and Multicultural
Language
spa
Abstract
The present study examines both the rhetorical patterns and the linguistic features that SHS in corporate in their Spanish and English writing discourse. For the purpose of this research, university students wrote two argumentative-persuasive essays from four to ten pages in length. The Spanish texts of SHS were compared to the Spanish writing of both Spanish Second Language Learners (SSLL) who are English Native Speakers, and Spanish Native Speakers from Mexico (SNS). The English texts were compared only to the English production of SSLL. A total of 216 pages (yielding a final corpus of 49,428 words) were analyzed. The rhetorical and the linguistic analyses show that there are very important and interesting differences in the way in which the three groups of writers incorporate the diverse linguistic variables examined in this study when composing in either Spanish or English. Moreover, this study suggests that both the Spanish and the English writing of SHS has unique characteristics that demonstrate both a cultural and linguistic transculturation: they do not thoroughly follow the beaten paths of SSLL nor SNS, but find their own pathway to expression.
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